I have a 50mm prime lens that’s really awful at focusing. How do I learn to manually focus for street photography?

  • Bodhrans-Not-Bombs@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    I’ve never seen an AF lens with distance scales that were worth a crap. Especially if you’re trying to do it with a focus-by-wire lens that has no actual physical connection to the elements.

    The classic method for street photography was zone focusing anyway, so you’d set your focus distance a certain ways out (or at hyperfocal, so everything beyond a certain line was in focus out to infinity), usually stopped down to increase the plane of focus.