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Forum: Photographic Technique
10-03-2013, 10:03 PM
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Grin. That was beautiful. You just said that a lot more eloquently and amusingly than I was about to. Mind you my eyes are not as good as they could be lately and I do have to rely some on AF these days when I am really having trouble with them, but if we're going to be like that, be obsessive with getting "perfect" focus every single time, why not just turn the damned AF OFF and actually learn to look through the VF and focus the camera lens without it? Honestly if I have to work that hard to get my AF to work then I'd rather just do it myself.
FYI, I have never recalibrated a lens. Never really needed to, but if I am working with a lens that isn't giving me the best results with AF then I just turn it off and try to fine tune it by focusing manually. AF is a nice thing, but it's not perfect 100% of the time. No type of focusing is perfect all the time. No matter how good you are, or your AF is you will have the odd blurry shot. It's just inevitable and I refuse to worry about it. That's why I take a few shots of each subject, not just one.
FYI, my could keep rate is probably 85% of what I shoot. That's probably better than some people, maybe not as good as some, but I think that's mostly because I don't rely on the camera to do all my shooting FOR me. AF is a convenience. It's nice. It can help a lot under the right circumstances when my eyesight is crappy, but I believe in actually using my camera the old fashioned way. As bad as my eyes can be there are times when they are still just plain better at it than my camera's AF is and I would have to say that about every DSLR camera I've ever worked with no matter what the brand. Seeking perfect focus 100% of the time is just asking for miracles, I think.
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