Re: [Leica] Re: Greg Bicket's focus thread

[Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>]

The ONLY time I use manual focus is when I've locked the camera on a tripod
and am taking my sweet time taking the photograph.  This is when I usually
prefer focusing by eye on the screen, rather than move the camera to get
the center spot to the point I wish to focus (same problem applies to
M-Leica, but in this case I MUST move camera to focus). The concept of
"Decisive Moment doesn't apply.

If I'm hand holding the camera and anticipate tracking some animal in the
woods where twigs might interfere with the focus, I suppose I might just
keep the camera in manual mode from the start and use MF throughout the
shoot.  But I have found that the AF sensors in my camera have fairly high
resolution and I usually don't have this problem you describe.

Dan C.

At 05:24 PM 04-11-00 -0800, Douglas Herr wrote:
>> Well.....there's no law that says I must use my camera in AF mode.  It has
>> a very clear 100% viewfinder which is easy to focus anywhere within it by
>> eye.  I just have to flip a switch on the side of the camera to convert to
>> manual focus.  And sometimes I do just that.   
>> 
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>Here again the time lost when I move my hand to the AF switch and switch
the sucker off (for example when the animal moves behind some twigs and the
AF wants to focus on the twigs) is inevitably the "decisive moment" when I
wanted to take the picture.  I'd rather have the camera under full control
at all times.
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