Eric - There is no special honor in focusing manually and there is nothing mysterious about auto-focus if you turn off all but one of the sensors.
Focusing is a purely mechanical skill that has nothing to do with making your photos better. Picking the place in the photo where you want to focus is the skill. If you set the camera to use a single focusing sensor, then lock the focus so you can recompose the image, you're not doing anything significantly different than when we used to manually focus in the old days. Even then we usually had help from a split image or micro-prism spot that would help us achieve better focus. Those tools do not exist on today's cameras. Once you're comfortable with that start to explore the other autofocus features and determine what is useful to you. Take advantage of the cameras features that can give you more time to concentrate on what is important. I've reached an age where I am quite thankful for auto-focus. If I had to depend on my eyesight I would only have sharp photos by accident. GS George Sinos -------------------- www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.com On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > On Oct 27, 2013, at 5:37 PM, Jack Davis <jdavi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Another, probably more versatile over time, would be the DA 16~45 f/4. A >> constant aperture lens which delivers extremely nice results. It's been >> discontinued, but check with KEH on a regular basis and chances are you'll >> find one. > > Thanks, Jack. I’ll keep an eye out for it. > > Feeling guilty that I’m feeling tempted by autofocus. I want to learn > photography. I don’t like things that do things for me without explaining > what they’re doing. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > eew...@bellsouth.net > > "I can explain it for you, I just can't comprehend it for you." > > - Ed Koch > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
