this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
1 points (100.0% liked)

Photography

24 readers
1 users here now

A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
communick@viewfinder.pro
1
When do you use manual focus? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by DiablolicalScientist@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro
172 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] BartlettMagic@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

i'm a beginner, so FYI. i use a Kodak PixPro AZ405.

so often i wish i had the ability to manually focus. it's probably my single biggest frustration. i really like the zoom (it's why i got the AZ405, 40x zoom seemed desireable), but i'm often trying to zoom on a single flower or leaf etc., and it just refuses to give me a nice detailed view of the subject. i want to wring it into focus so f'n bad.