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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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[–] LittleSpice1@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

At night autofocus rarely finds the right focus and manual focus gives better results. Also for wildlife photography I have a lens that has a “manual override” option, meaning I can autofocus, but if it doesn’t focus on the point I want I can manually correct it. I’ve used that quite a bit, as sometimes the autofocus will go to a point in front of the animals, for example if they’re standing in deep grass. Being able to correct it without having to switch to manual is an awesome feature.