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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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[–] Obi-Wayne@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I have an R5, and the manual focus is phenomenal on there. Weirdly though, I think I've only ever had to use it once. I was shooting with a model, and had hung plexiglass in front of her that had been hit with water from a spray bottle to simulate a wet window. The eye AF kept going straight to her, and even the point focus just went straight past the water droplets. Using manual focus, I could see exactly when the droplets were in focus because they were outlined bright red, making the shot easy as possible to capture. Slightly NSFW, here's the final image.