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

Been traveling for months and have been almost exclusively using the same manual focus 35mm lens (7artisans 1.4) for all my street photography. This was a purposeful choice though to force myself to engage more and have to focus on something manually, wish focus peaking worked a bit better on the A6500, great as a general guide but cant trust it fully. I shoot waist height with the screen facing up and use my thumb to shoot to avoid drawing to much attention while shooting in the street. Shot a great series of elderly men in Albania like this, really brought me back to photography for recreation rather than work.