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AF+MF or How do you use Manual Focus

Started Jul 20, 2020 | Questions thread
Bobo Hodls
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Re: AF+MF or How do you use Manual Focus
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When critical focus is necessary, but visually precise focus isn't clearly apparent, I rack focus back and forth to try to determine when precise focus is attained. When the depth of what's in focus is narrow, focus peaking is most useful. There are situations when f.peaking isn't all that helpful, and magnification alone is better to use. F.peaking used when stopped down to have a greater range of the scene being IN focus - IMO is confounding.

Casually practice with refining focus after you take the AF shot - do it enough and you'll start to get the hang of it, and when you would find it useful (and when not).   You might also try practicing with an object on your desk with a wide open aperture, with and w/o f.peaking enabled.

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