{"id":356326,"date":"2022-02-25T14:20:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T19:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=356326"},"modified":"2022-02-25T14:25:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T19:25:21","slug":"autofocus-over-manual-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/25\/autofocus-over-manual-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"AUTOFOCUS OVER MANUAL FOCUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Autofocus is superior to manual focus. Why? Reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. You are more likely to capture the decisive<\/a>\/significant<\/a> moment. This is by far, our #1 priority in photography. <\/li>
  2. In theory if you’re shooting street photography on a rangefinder<\/a> camera, with a 28mm lens, at ISO 1600, at f\/16, then technically the rangefinder is superior in terms of manual focusing. Because literally everything is in focus, and there is no delay with autofocus. However, can you fit your Leica M in your front pocket? No. RICOH GR III\/IIIX<\/a>, you can.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Therefore don’t get suckered by manual<\/a> focusing; autofocus is better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Autofocus is superior to manual focus. Why? Reasons: You are more likely to capture the decisive\/significant moment. This is by far, our #1 priority in photography. In theory if you’re shooting street photography on \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":356238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/eric-kim-ricoh-gr-iiix-review-6-scaled.jpeg?fit=1707%2C2560&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356326"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356340,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356326\/revisions\/356340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}