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When do you use manual focus? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by DiablolicalScientist@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I feel like autofocus is so good. Are there times that you use manual focus? When I am looking through the view finder it almost seems impossible to actually manual focus a shot anyway.

Am I doing something wrong here? Just checking. Thank you.

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[–] BoxedAndArchived@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sure mirrorless is different, but traditional AF can be finicky. Additionally, I use my camera tethered most of the time and it is the first Generation Canon DPAF, and sometimes it just doesn't want to focus, and since my lens is STM and doesn't have full-time manual, I have to switch it to MF on a fairly frequent basis.