Originally posted by CathW Frustrating, as I'd really to access like automated focussing! Thanks.
Yes, what happens to you is normal and it is the result of mass marketing manipulation. Not so long ago everyone was doing focus stacking manually for the last 200 years everyone was happy.
In marketing terms, new features like automatic focus stepping make the customers constructively discontent versus what they already have (manual focus stepping). That's what marketing are doing to stimulate sales. For example, not so long ago, all telephones were wired and audio was recorded on magnetic tapes. The amount of white noise from magnetic tapes was fairly high, but since it was the standard you were satisfied. Then, someone developed the CD, free of white noise, and sales and marketing promoted CD vs magnetic tape showing the difference in white noise, making everyone discontent of magnetic tape and wanting to buy CDs (=spending money).
Now, you have to switch to Canon and Nikon for automatic focus stepping, and switch back to anther brand once this other brand will do something that Canon or Nikon don't have.
If we want to be always up to date with the latest innovation in cameras, we have to have a pretty big budget; every generation of camera brings some additional features, so we would have to buy all the time, BTW, good for the economy.
Last edited by biz-engineer; 02-06-2017 at 12:14 AM.