Manual Focus

[gsgary]

I drive Mercedes, Honda and 2 motorbikes

All at the same time?! I'm impressed.

No take Yamaha for a blast in morning and BMW in the afternoon

 

[imagemaker46]

I grew up using manual focus, did it from 1969 into the late 90's, shooting sports wasn't a challenge as there wasn't an option. I use auto focus the majority of the time now. Every now and then I take out my old 400 2.8 on the 1Dx and play around, I find it more challenging now, but I also find myself more connected to photography again.

 

[astroNikon]

I used to want to use Manual focus lenses.
Then my eyes have gone bugga-boo
So AF is the only way to go just to be safe
But I do like the Focus Override on modern AF-S lenses which is great to shot through/past things in the way (like a soccer net shooting a player past the net).

 

[DarkShadow]

My eye site is not so good. I use auto focus exclusively.

 

[soufiej]

I drive Mercedes, Honda and 2 motorbikes

All at the same time?! I'm impressed.

No take Yamaha for a blast in morning and BMW in the afternoon

OK, I'm still impressed you can turn one Mercedes and two Hondas into a BMW. When most people try that, they end up under water.

 

[Jasii]

For me it is the AF most of the time. Falling light is when I turn to have a tweak at the MF, but then I do not have any exclusive MF lenses, maybe I should.

 

[KenC]

As with others, AF except for macro work. With film cameras I never had autofocus lenses, so when I switched to DSLR's I wanted to use manual focus, but the viewfinders are not as good, so I tried AF and found it worked well. For macro, I use Live View at 5x magnification to focus.

 

[Miles Farman]

I tend to use manual unless I'm only taking snaps. Despite the amazing technological achievement in making it work as well as it does, I still don't find it sufficiently reliable.

 

[Dao]

AF most of the time. "Kind of manual" with macro since I will preset the focus point and move the camera to get the focus. However, I still use the center focus "BEEP" to confirm. But in some situation, I found pre-focus works better (i.e. Just shoot when subject enter the focus plane/zone)

 

[dennybeall]

I've experimented with auto and manual focus and find autofocus in my modern camera is very close to being as good as manual except for macros and focusing past a closer object, like a fence. Using the screen and blowing up the view you can see little difference between manual and auto focus.