I did something different today. I went to a bar that was having a jazz group on - I know the Cuban sax player a bit - and I took the D700 along. I had decided this morning to try it out with fixed shutter and diaphragm and with auto ISO, something that ran very agin the grain as I hate giving up control of anything.
I discovered two things: you can't photograph music, only musicians and instruments; there may be something to autofocus after all.
No idea if anthing worked, but I'll have a look at it all tomorrow.
At least it didn't cost me anything, so maybe that's three things I discovered today. No, four: some women, after a certain age, no longer use mirrors; tight don't suit when it's too tight over too much or too little. It is not the new black. Even if most of it was.
Rob C
EDIT: To my surprise, the jazz stuff doesn't look too bad at all - should have used a faster shutter and a smaller stop, but that auto ISO does seem to be a pretty reliable technique. I'm doing it all in b/white, of course, and the ability to make up for lousy location lighting (to remove a friggin' dart board, even!) is rather handy.