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The Plastic Fantastic gets a Drastic Upgrade

Started Jan 7, 2016 | User reviews thread
OP shleed Contributing Member • Posts: 757
Re: The Plastic Fantastic gets a Drastic Upgrade

Steve Balcombe wrote:

shleed wrote:

My only gripe with it however is that it's manual focus can only be used when holding the shutter button down in AF, or when the camera is metering in MF. You cannot use it outside these as the focusing ring is only triggering the motor, rather than being directly linked to the focusing mechanism.

I don't have any STM lenses yet, but I've been thinking about picking up one of these to replace my ageing 50/1.8 MkI. However manual focus in Live View is very important to me, and I can sometimes spend several minutes setting up a subject, adjusting focus multiple times. How does that work in practice? Will I have to half-press the shutter button each time to enable focusing?

It works fine in live view since it's always metering.
Outside live view, you have to make sure it's metering to keep it working, otherwise half tap the shutter button. You only need to hold it if it's on AF in order to do manual override.

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