[Leica] OT auto focus tip

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

On 7/24/06 8:49 AM, "Roy Feldman" <roy@detroitphotographic.com> typed:

> With auto focus the center square is usuallly the most sensitive as the
> focus points are measured in two directions.
> With all nikon cameras and I believe most canons (the used to both have the
> same menu function # for this) it is possible to disable the shutter
> auto-focus activation and just enable it with a button on the back
> only.Alot of press shooters use this because...;.I use center spot,
> hit back
> button...it focuses, recompose....shoot, the focus will remain at the spot
> where you did the first center spot reading.
> This way of shooting takes a bit of practice but I shoot sports for a major
> newspaper and all the photogs here do it this way.
> Like I said you have to try it out but once you get used to it you won't 
> use
> any thing else, nothing worse than focusing, then composing and having the
> AF start focusing on the background, this way it is locked where you put it
> without having to hold in a locus lock button, it is focus locked by 
> default


I would think a lot of people do what I do which is select an edge sensor
and have that do the focusing and so on when the subject is at that edge top
or bottom. I'm always shifting from one sensor to the other.
Other times I get sick of that and override the AF. Turn it off sometimes.
As I used to say I don't NEED AutoFocus; I AM AutoFocus.


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