Joseph Tainter wrote:
Paul Stenquist
Sat, 13 May 2006 17:18:45 -0700
Don't you feel any need to vary your autofocus point? I use the
selective autofocus and move the point to where I want it. For example,
when shooting street photography and anticipating verticals, I move it
to the far right center area, so it will correspond to eye position when
shooting verticals.
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Once in a long while I will select a different autofocus point. But
generally I focus and recompose using the central autofocus point.
I think I understand what you are describing for street photography, and
I can see that it would work. But I do little of that kind of shooting.
Generally I turn red and vent steam out of my ears waiting for people to
get out of my frame.
Joe
With the D I rarely varied AF points because the 4-way switch was a PITA
(IMO), but with the 20D I do a lot of AF point switching (the little
joystick controller falls right under my right thumb and I find it a
better control than the D's 4-way switch). I do mostly nature
photography and recently discovered how nice it is to not have to
focus-and-recompose.
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Christian
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