Dyslexicbloke
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Camera still in the post... Irritated having paid for delivery yesterday...
Point is I can't play with it yet.
However I haven't been doing some digging and have questions.
AF First.
I have watched and read several, if not many, descriptions and tutorials about and I am just as confused now as I was when I started.
I they the single point and there difference between Single and Constant but when it comes to multiple focus points I haven't seen a good explanation of functionality.
I plan to use back button focus in AF-C, best of both worlds, and thus far I have only ever used single point, which doesn't take much understanding.
However it occurs to me that BIF or more likely things going from stationary to moving, or vice versa, may be a good reason to actually learn how to use and what you expect from other focus settings.
None of the explanations I have seen so far explain the difference between 3D tracking, which uses all 51 points and standard 51 points.
The 3D seems to attempt to remember some aspect of the original focus point and try to follow it... which looks useful.
The problem is I thought that is what multi point did! As I said confused.
Not withstanding group size of position, that seems obvious enough,
what is multi point doing, when is it doing it?
Burst rate, more specifically, what you compromise, if anything, to maximise it.
The D7200 is way faster than the D90 but if 14bit RAW is still slower than its own maximum.
I don't want to shoot JPG because I realise that post is going to be important given my challenging choice of subject matter,
Cropping seems counter productive so I am assuming that is off the table but what about dropping some RAW info?
The body offers RAW compression, which seems like an oxymoron right now, and also the ability to use 12bit as opposed to 14 bit.
Given that 12bit is still a silly amount of colours and I never noticed an issue with this on the D90, which I think is 12 bit, is there a good reason to use the 14bit.
dropping to 12 bit, from 14, and enabling RAW compression seems to offer an additional 2FPS, which is huge as a %, and it seems like too had a trade off to me.
Is there likely to be a net gain in outcome?
I realise I am actually loosing information but I wonder if it matters much, especially as one of those extra frames may any the one I wanted in the first place.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Al
Point is I can't play with it yet.
However I haven't been doing some digging and have questions.
AF First.
I have watched and read several, if not many, descriptions and tutorials about and I am just as confused now as I was when I started.
I they the single point and there difference between Single and Constant but when it comes to multiple focus points I haven't seen a good explanation of functionality.
I plan to use back button focus in AF-C, best of both worlds, and thus far I have only ever used single point, which doesn't take much understanding.
However it occurs to me that BIF or more likely things going from stationary to moving, or vice versa, may be a good reason to actually learn how to use and what you expect from other focus settings.
None of the explanations I have seen so far explain the difference between 3D tracking, which uses all 51 points and standard 51 points.
The 3D seems to attempt to remember some aspect of the original focus point and try to follow it... which looks useful.
The problem is I thought that is what multi point did! As I said confused.
Not withstanding group size of position, that seems obvious enough,
what is multi point doing, when is it doing it?
Burst rate, more specifically, what you compromise, if anything, to maximise it.
The D7200 is way faster than the D90 but if 14bit RAW is still slower than its own maximum.
I don't want to shoot JPG because I realise that post is going to be important given my challenging choice of subject matter,
Cropping seems counter productive so I am assuming that is off the table but what about dropping some RAW info?
The body offers RAW compression, which seems like an oxymoron right now, and also the ability to use 12bit as opposed to 14 bit.
Given that 12bit is still a silly amount of colours and I never noticed an issue with this on the D90, which I think is 12 bit, is there a good reason to use the 14bit.
dropping to 12 bit, from 14, and enabling RAW compression seems to offer an additional 2FPS, which is huge as a %, and it seems like too had a trade off to me.
Is there likely to be a net gain in outcome?
I realise I am actually loosing information but I wonder if it matters much, especially as one of those extra frames may any the one I wanted in the first place.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Al