Phil Hawkins
New member
I'm new here, this is my first post. Referered by someone on Fred Miranda, so Hi Folks, I have a question about the 5D servo focus.
I shoot motocross racing, which is fast, fast fast. I shoot mostly for head-on motion to the riders. On Motocross tracks, they are coming at me either directly (90 degrees) or slightly to the left. On TT, (flat track oval course racing) they come at me in a circular motion, but head-on at bout 50 degrees off dead center.
I switched to Servo Focus due to the function that servo is supposed to measure the speed and direction of the subject and compensate for "perfect" focus (or as close to perfect as can be reasonably be expected.) I set for center focus-point which adds 6 additional focus points and my results are a bit disappointing.
Shooting usually at 2.8 to blurr background at 200 ISO and 1250 shutter speed.
full-frame image (slightly cropped)
Now, cropped 100%
and, an image I consider to be prefectly focused; this is the result I'm looking for in all shots.
Full frame for reference:
and 100% image
I'm not getting the sharpness I got on this quad shot.
Why?
Phil
I shoot motocross racing, which is fast, fast fast. I shoot mostly for head-on motion to the riders. On Motocross tracks, they are coming at me either directly (90 degrees) or slightly to the left. On TT, (flat track oval course racing) they come at me in a circular motion, but head-on at bout 50 degrees off dead center.
I switched to Servo Focus due to the function that servo is supposed to measure the speed and direction of the subject and compensate for "perfect" focus (or as close to perfect as can be reasonably be expected.) I set for center focus-point which adds 6 additional focus points and my results are a bit disappointing.
Shooting usually at 2.8 to blurr background at 200 ISO and 1250 shutter speed.
full-frame image (slightly cropped)
Now, cropped 100%
and, an image I consider to be prefectly focused; this is the result I'm looking for in all shots.
Full frame for reference:
and 100% image
I'm not getting the sharpness I got on this quad shot.
Why?
Phil
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