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

For any stills like posed portraits getting the eyes sharp, focusing on stars, focusing on the hyperfocal point in a landscape, etc. Live view, move cursor where focus point needs to be, 100% zoom in Live View (I have a button bound for this), manual focus until sharp, shutter (I use back button focus so shutter press doesn't re-focus)