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Offline Alchase

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Re: Manual or auto focus?
« Reply #15 on: May 03, 2013, 11:40:37 AM »
Some great info in this thread  :tup:
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Offline Tom Reichner

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Re: Manual or auto focus?
« Reply #16 on: May 09, 2013, 05:58:05 PM »
I prefer autofocus, and use that for 99.9% of my images.  The only times I use manual focus are those times when autofocus will not work, such as when there is a heavy snowfall, in which case the AF keeps trying to focus on falling snowflakes, and doesn't "see past" them to focus on the subject.

Just looking thru the viewfinder, I cannot really tell what is sharp and what is blurry.   The camera is much more accurate than my eyesight, so I trust it to do my focusing for me. 
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Re: Manual or auto focus?
« Reply #17 on: May 09, 2013, 07:43:16 PM »
Nice shots, Tom.   :tup:

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Re: Manual or auto focus?
« Reply #18 on: May 10, 2013, 06:30:55 AM »
I'm 67 yrs old, so are my eye's! Love that auto focus. But then I still have some film camera's I like to shoot now and then. Mostly my RB 67 and a Yashica 635. They have nice big focusing screen's.

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