Autofocus vs manual focus

[apaar123]

Which would be a better option for a person who always have used his phone for pictures. Also I will be doing just photography mainly portraits( not proffessional).

[Mira Yurizaki]

It depends. I just touch a spot and let autofocus do its magic. If it's having trouble, I manually do it.

[apaar123]

3 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

It depends. I just touch a spot and let autofocus do its magic. If it's having trouble, I manually do it.

Yeah my camera has touch to focus 

[Sack]

It really depends on your usecase, for a phone camera where you're "capturing moments" auto focus is the way to go, but if you want to set up a scene, go somewhere and take incredible photos or videos you'll need the manual focus to adjust your image the way you want to caputure it.

[Ya_Mi]

For a DSLR or Mirrorless camera i always use manual settings by adjusting the aperture settings to control the depth of field and then manually adjust the focus to get the best looking image as possible..
I rarely use phone camera though so just use autofocus to save the trouble.

[cc143]

Manual focus is not as much of a nuiscence as it sounds, however, in most applications today, AF is very important. There are cases where MF is preferable and certainly possible, such as slow paced studio shooting or video. But otherwise, AF is pretty important. 

 

Also, most DSLR OVFs are not that accurate when focusing, not as much as older SLRs. So without focus peaking, I wouldn't rely too heavily on MF. 

[apaar123]

i guess i will be going with autofocus lens. Thank you everybody

[peabody505]

I have not yet seen a camera whose autofocus can't keep up with my photo shooting needs. I usually shoot video however so that might have something to do with it. It's never a bad thing to learn how to focus manually, but I'd say for casual photography going with AF is a safe bet.