Forum: Photographic Technique
01-25-2019, 03:44 PM
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Habit's are hard to break. I made a concerted effort to use AF modes a few years ago and found I spent more time confirming focus than if I'd simply manually focused.
I've spent 10-15 minutes setting up and 'proofing' a burst, AF-C shot only to end up with the same single happy-to-have-it shot I'd have gotten with an ad-hoc fixed, pre-focus set-up. (Like shootin' basketball with a Yashica TLR 6x6 and flash bulbs?)
Center point and re-compose works effortlessly for me for both focus and exposure. (Perhaps ghosts of Spotmatics-past lookin' over my shoulder? OK, thanks ol' friends.)
Even AF was not 'normal' for me until a nerve injury inhibited my ability to use my left fingers for manual focus. Now it's a necessity.
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