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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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How do I get better at manual focusing? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by garlic_bread_thief@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I have a 50mm prime lens that's really awful at focusing. How do I learn to manually focus for street photography?

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[–] csl512@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Practice.

But nobody in this sub is looking over your shoulder: you gotta provide more information to narrow down the responses. Does your camera even have the focus peaking others mention?

What camera model and what lens as precisely as you know it? A fully manual rangefinder or SLR is going to have different stuff than a modern DSLR or mirrorless. Is it able to take sharp photos in static and controlled settings, like a focus test chart?

And if you have something modern with autofocus available, what about it makes you not want to use it?