Chris2500dk
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- Copenhagen, Denmark
The more I get to know my RX100 the more it impresses me.
On a recent trip to Tenerife we visited their large and very impressive zoo, Loro Parque (means Parrot Park). In addition to a lot of parrots they also have dolphin, orca and sea lion shows, and I had a go at doing some action shots during the dolphin show.
Basicly I set the shutter speed as desired (S mode, 1/800), left ISO on Auto, zoomed in to the pool area, prefocused and hit the centre button which I set up for AF/MF toggle. This locks focus, and with focus peeking I can instantly tell if my target is drifting out of focus. With the sensor size and aperture at the tele end the focus zone was comfortably big enough for me not having to worry about focus or AF speed and I could just concentrate on pressing the shutter at the right moment while having the framing correctly.
Personally I think it worked really well, probably even better than my D5100 would have done. I brought the DSLR on our trip there last year, but this year it was just the RX100.
DSC04435_LR4_web by ChristianHass, on Flickr
DSC04442_web by ChristianHass, on Flickr
Of course there were some misses, but that was mostly due to me not being fast enough to click the shutter. I didn't think to enable the 10 fps continous mode, it would have been great since focusing was locked anyway. Something to try next time
On a recent trip to Tenerife we visited their large and very impressive zoo, Loro Parque (means Parrot Park). In addition to a lot of parrots they also have dolphin, orca and sea lion shows, and I had a go at doing some action shots during the dolphin show.
Basicly I set the shutter speed as desired (S mode, 1/800), left ISO on Auto, zoomed in to the pool area, prefocused and hit the centre button which I set up for AF/MF toggle. This locks focus, and with focus peeking I can instantly tell if my target is drifting out of focus. With the sensor size and aperture at the tele end the focus zone was comfortably big enough for me not having to worry about focus or AF speed and I could just concentrate on pressing the shutter at the right moment while having the framing correctly.
Personally I think it worked really well, probably even better than my D5100 would have done. I brought the DSLR on our trip there last year, but this year it was just the RX100.
DSC04435_LR4_web by ChristianHass, on Flickr
DSC04442_web by ChristianHass, on Flickr
Of course there were some misses, but that was mostly due to me not being fast enough to click the shutter. I didn't think to enable the 10 fps continous mode, it would have been great since focusing was locked anyway. Something to try next time