Auto or Manual focus?

Do you use auto or manual focus?

  • Auto all the way!

    Votes: 49 86.0%

  • Manual duh!

    Votes: 8 14.0%
  • Total voters
    57
Well I voted for auto, but must admit I use both. Depends on the situation, light, and subject! I suppose its about 60/40 in favour of auto. Cant see the point of having fast auto focus if you dont use it!
 
Mainly auto, ensures sharp images a lot of the time (especially with my not so good eyesight) and is very quick and efficient. Manual for creative things and when I can take my time.
 
I think you need to add both but realistically you should have had

MF
mainly MF
50/50
mainly AF
AF

Mine would be "mainly AF".
 
Whatever I need to get the result I want. Mainly on a tripod I use manual via live view, otherwise it's usually AF.
 
Both. On AF lenses, I use AF. When I use MF lenses, I use MF.
 
Auto for everything apart from Macro.

Why? Because MF with AF lenses and "modern" plain glass screens is way harder than it used to be with microprisms, split screens etc and IMO, AF is more accurate than my eyes these days. Macro tends to be chose magnification then rock slightly until the point I want is in focus (as close as I can tell!) then click.
 
Macro manual, fixed length shooting at a certain point (such as a brow of a hill for motorcross) manual.

Everything else auto - with the exception of Portraits where I can shoot in either depending on the circumstances/what I'm trying to achieve.

I try to use every tool available to me to make that shot.
 
bit of both, manual more than I expected, so now collecting a few manual lenses and really liking using them.
 
Auto setting use of a DSLR camera is defeating the reason for getting one. May be ok for compact cameras that can be carried in a pocket. The whole point of a DSLR camera is so one can set the camera up to suit different situations , be it lighting -shutter speed etc.
So the OP's question, with all due respect, is not specific enough to the relative type of camera being referred to.

Realspeed
 
Auto for most of the time but manual when i'm doing macro.
 
Auto on the 5D 95% of the time.

Manual on of my film cameras, except the EOS 3 :)
 
Auto. I want my pictures to ne in focus. If I do it manually, they won't be. Whether it's my spectacles or something else I don't know, but manual does not work for me.
 
MF all the time, only because I was taught on a MF film camera.
 
I voted auto because about 99% of the time that's what I use. With my eyesight it's really hard to manually focus so I only do that when on the tripod and I have the time to take several shots at slightly varying focus points.
 
I have an old F3 with a manual 35mm lens on for 'playing with' from time to time, but I haven't used MF in anger since the Nikon F5 came out...
 
Both. Manual focus for dark times, or for when I've got converters on lenses and gone to F8 which won't AF. I also tend to shoot panning shots at motorsport on manual. Pre-focus on the point you want to shoot, then shoot as the car goes past that point.
 
Auto, unless it doesn't focus how I want. Then probably focus lock, is that manual or automatic? I know it's not manualy turning the focus ring, but overides the auto?
 
Manual when using tripod and/or Macro but Auto most of the time as taking my glasses on and off to check setting etc is a pain.
I think you should have had another option in your poll to include both auto and manual.

Roy S
 
I'm in the mainly AF camp as well..... I do like AFS stuff where there's no need to switch over :)
 
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