The point is that you don\'t have to recompose when manual focusing. With AF, it may be focus -> compose. With MF it\'s compose -> focus.
As an aside, tracking with MF also requires finesse, but can easily be accomplished by a competent photographer.
Understood. But how does that change anything I have said?
Focus recompose is frowned upon because it has a strong potential of rendering the point of focus out of focus. If your lens has a shallow DoF and you tilt the lens, you\'ll focus at a point that is further when you recompose the image, which can easily leave the point of focus out of focus.
Feb 09, 2010 at 09:31 PM
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