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

submitted 10 months 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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[–] 753UDKM@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I use manual focus for macro photography and film photography. On my X-T5, the focus peaking is really good, so it helps a ton for getting focus right w/ my macro lens. Also there are sometimes instances where autofocus struggles, like low light, or if there's a fence in front of my subject (like at the zoo), so I switch to manual focus to force it to focus on what I want rather than what is closer.

On my OM-10, there's just no choice but to manual focus lol. It works well enough.