planepics Loc: St. Louis burbs, but originally Chicago burbs

...from a practice session with my rented RX-10iv. I'm taking it to Oshkosh tomorrow while my a99ii gets nearly three paychecks worth of repair...the main board and mirror box need to be replaced...I'll end up with a practically new camera! I got the camera Thursday from Lensrentals, but this is the first time I've really tried it out. I've deleted a bunch of pics already. a couple things I noticed was the the MFD must not be very M, as I kept having to move farther away from a shot when using the "macro" scene selection. Also, the most frustrating part was that my focus point kept on moving. I'd use the touchscreen (a new experience for me) to center the focus point or set it to center in the menu, and on almost the next shot, I'd expect ot take a certain pic and the focus area had moved the the bottom right-center. What was I doing wrong?? I also tried the 20 FPS burst mode for a few seconds, and while I heard about a hundred clicks (wild guess) the review only showed 8 images.

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UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Nice result! Good luck in Oshkosh.

planepics Loc: St. Louis burbs, but originally Chicago burbs

Thanks :) I've have several plane pics picked as winners or also-rans in a couple aviation e-publications, but I've never won anything big...a couple baseball caps and a few autographs. Once I retire, maybe I'll see if I can get a job with some kind of aviation media company as a photographer (or gear carrier, if nothing else). I go to Oshkosh, on average, about every other year and have since the mid-late 80s. I hope someone can help me figure out my focus issues. Maybe it will just take a lot of practice. The manual is almost 600 pages long! I did watch one You-Tube video, though.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Herbie1924 Loc: Woodbury, MN

Visual impact would be improved if the centered subject against this large cluttered background was cropped to fill the frame.

imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

You may be WAY overthinking the focusing ! Please see my many RX10m4 postings here on UHH. I just pick a focus area - spot, wide, ect. and let the CAMERA focus - it actually works perfect for me - it;s AMAZING ! When you specify that it focus where you touch the screen and bring to your eye - some part of your face is touching (moving) the focus point.....ect, ect ...you may be moving the focus point but you may have the camera set to only expose when the camera finds perfect focus and you may be moving so that the camera is infrequently finding perfect focus - this is why you only get 8 exposures shooting 24 FPS. HINT: I almost NEVER soot @ 24 FPS - I set to "mid" which is 10-12 FPS - focusing is BETTER !

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

A pic I took yesterday at Oshkosh. A Wing Derringer. An amazing lite twin that just didn't catch on. If I remember correctly there is only about 17 flying at this point. Have a great time and good luck.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Nice 💙💛💙

planepics Loc: St. Louis burbs, but originally Chicago burbs

I just finished downloading my pics from today...I'll try to post one in a sec

U2 Dragon (one of about 1,800 pics I took today

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