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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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[–] Accomplished-Till445@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I use manual focus on my Laowa macro (because it doesn't have AF). I also tend to use MF quite a bit in video for specific shots like a focus pull. For stills though, I am AF 98% of the time.

When in MF, I use focus peaking and magnification as tools to make sure I am locked to my subject.