Digital Cameras present photographers with an ever increasing array of Automatic and Semi Automatic shooting modes. Most of these center around different ways of exposing your shots – however many cameras also give options for different focusing modes (auto, continuous focusing for moving subjects and manual).
It’s no wonder then that many photographers never make use of their camera and lens’ ability to focus manually. In fact this week I spoke with one DSLR owner recently who hadn’t even noticed the manual/auto focus switch on the side of his lens.
As any beginner in photography will contest to, learning how to use a manual camera can be downright frustrating and time consuming. Not only that, it can drain your pockets of your hard earned money, having to develop roll after roll of film, most of which turns out to be either under or over-exposed.