Canon EF-S 10-18 F4.5-5.6 IS STM

[Peter63]

I don't use or carry a tripod, or use BackButtonFocus. I also don't use it to shoot pastoral, bucolic images of the countryside or nature. Hyperfocal at 11mm and f/4 is under two meters so I aim for that. Only sometimes do I stop down to f/8. My use of UW is not a good guide to orthodox "landscape" photography. I use it instead for urban peoplescapes.

So you are setting it at hyperfocal and using manual focus? I guess this is my main question, thinking that a wide DOF avoids the need for AF much of the time.

No. Always AF, but again, I am not so methodical or Punctilious about max DoF on most shots . I either (look exposure first), focus with center box and recompose. Or set the focus point ( and shoot) by punching the touch screen which allows one to focus anywhere on the frame quickly except for the extreme edges.

Thank you,

Peter