Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 58: Autofocus Points: Adorama Photography TV

Adorama Photography TV presents: Autofocus Points. The reason for all of these autofocus points is to make it easier for photographers to create off-center compositions and still get the focus right. In this episode Mark will give you tips on how to use the autofocus points.

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• Autofocus Mode
• Autofocus points
• photography
• Mark Wallace
• snapfactory
• adorama
• camera
• digital
• DSLR
• Canon
• Nikon

[onlineahmeds]

welcome back Sam ;-)

[BMSWEB]

I only ever have my focus point set to centre. I just do the half click on the shutter and re-frame while holding down the shutter button. I've never actually used any of the other modes on the canon.

[BocaNejra]

@BMSWEB Yeah!! It's fun how the latest cameras come with like 20-40 focusing points and I wonder myself why??? Only one accurate one and the possibility of locking it as with the metering is needed. Its just fancy stuff to charge more for them! GWCs must love that LOL.

[skingoogles]

Sam can smile all she wants!  ;^)

[Himanshucisco1]

Nice tutorial

but Sam why are you smiling ?? :P

[essellar]

@BMSWEB With wide angle lenses or close subjects, that actually puts the plane of focus behind the subject. You'll really notice with a shallow depth of field. Hasselblad cameras, which only have the center point, have a motion center to tell the camera how much you've moved the camera to recompose, and then compensate for the focus distance change. Always use the autofocus point closest to the subject in the frame, even if you still need to recompose -- it minimizes the resulting error.

[MrPlaystationboy]

@AlbertGabrielCo it means pointing the camera back to were you want it to be on the final image

[MrPlaystationboy]

i agree with @BMSWEB i also onley ever use point ...alll you do is point the camera at the thing you want in focus ..half press the shutter (or even more easy, use the AF/AE lock botton if your camera has one ) until you hear the double beep (or see the focus confirm thingy in the viewfinder) ...and then you re-compose ...it's alot more acurate then having the camera chose were to focus ..and i think its just as quick...if not quicker

[IraLWilliams]

How do you focus if there are three people? Sometimes it will focus on one person and then the others are blur.

[JanErikEdvartsen]

@BMSWEB That could pose problems if you use wide apertures like 2.8 and wider. When re framing you could shift the focus place cause of the narrow DoF.

[JCSolar]

Is she married?



[oesdoob]

How come in your example on canon 7d there are five option, on mine i can only select 3 out of five? Thanks Fort