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When do you use manual focus? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years 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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[–] agent_almond@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

When I’m trying to achieve focus through one plane to an object behind it. Through glass, a fence, a group of faces, etc.

THIS is why I will NEVER buy a lens that doesn’t have an Auto/Manual switch on the barrel. A lot of shots would have been missed.