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

I upgraded from my a7II using only vintage lenses to a a7RIIIa with autofocus lenses. I’m not going to lie.. I sometimes really miss the tactile feeling of my vintage lenses and the joy of focusing myself haha.

I completely understand why people prefer AF, since it’s soo good these days. But I’ll happily keep using both depending on my mood and usecase.

Focus peeking and magnification makes focusing manually a breeze on mirrorless in my opinion.