- Feb 22, 2001
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I've had my D5000 for almost four years now, and I've had a lot of fun with it.
I've been taking a lot of photos of dogs the last year and it's becoming my niche.
One of the things I've been let down on is focus-speed - in particular with instances of the dog running head on to me.
I've posted a couple of questions on DPR, in both the Amateur/General section and the Nikon APS-C area looking for advice on how to improve.
At this point, short of pre-focusing on an area and waiting for the dog to run thru that plane and shooting (which just is honestly too much work and I still haven't had a perfect hit), my techniques seem reasonable - up the ISO, clamp down the aperture to get more in focus, steady held, with/without VR etc.
I haven't got a concrete answer is the slow focusing is my body or my kit 55-200 lens.
Do I upgrade the body or the lens to improve focus speed?
"They work together" - so, upgrade both?
I know the Nikon/Tamron 70-300 are both purported to focus fast than my 55-200 kit lens, but ... fast enough to solve my issue?
Would an upgrade the D5200/5300 body help?
And now the Sony A6000 comes out with "super fast continuous focus."
I was enamored with the marketing videos (including a scene of a dog running directly at the photographer) and thought maybe I'd just dump Nikon and get the A6000 and their 55-210.
But then I saw some samples of A6000 at 100%, and the detail is super smeary - it looks like a P&S. At "scaled to monitor" resolution, the images look sharp. So far I've heard "Sony is overly aggressive with the NR on JPGs and shoot raw and forget it", but I've seen a few converted raws and they still seem slightly smeary. Maybe that's just what 24 megapixels of resolution does?
I've been taking a lot of photos of dogs the last year and it's becoming my niche.
One of the things I've been let down on is focus-speed - in particular with instances of the dog running head on to me.
I've posted a couple of questions on DPR, in both the Amateur/General section and the Nikon APS-C area looking for advice on how to improve.
At this point, short of pre-focusing on an area and waiting for the dog to run thru that plane and shooting (which just is honestly too much work and I still haven't had a perfect hit), my techniques seem reasonable - up the ISO, clamp down the aperture to get more in focus, steady held, with/without VR etc.
I haven't got a concrete answer is the slow focusing is my body or my kit 55-200 lens.
Do I upgrade the body or the lens to improve focus speed?
"They work together" - so, upgrade both?
I know the Nikon/Tamron 70-300 are both purported to focus fast than my 55-200 kit lens, but ... fast enough to solve my issue?
Would an upgrade the D5200/5300 body help?
And now the Sony A6000 comes out with "super fast continuous focus."
I was enamored with the marketing videos (including a scene of a dog running directly at the photographer) and thought maybe I'd just dump Nikon and get the A6000 and their 55-210.
But then I saw some samples of A6000 at 100%, and the detail is super smeary - it looks like a P&S. At "scaled to monitor" resolution, the images look sharp. So far I've heard "Sony is overly aggressive with the NR on JPGs and shoot raw and forget it", but I've seen a few converted raws and they still seem slightly smeary. Maybe that's just what 24 megapixels of resolution does?