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

I have two old lenses that don't work with the camera auto focus, so about 2/3 of the time. Sometimes more, because one is a 50 mm and I've been having a lot of fun with it.

I used to shoot more film, and used cameras that I either had to guess to focus or the rangefinder wasn't working right, and a lot of those came out surprisingly sharp!