What % of your photos are made with manual focus?

[matthijs]

<p>A small percentage (20%) of my macro's and all of my shots with my crummy 500mm mirror...</p>

[matroskin]

<p>i use manual camera (i dare not to say the name here, though ;) ) and thus 100% of photos are manual focus. they work out quite well too - <a href="http://mooostudios.com/county_fair/county_fair.htm">http://mooostudios.com/county_fair/county_fair.htm</a></p>

[tom_burke3]

<p>Photos taken with Canon EOS: 100% AF<br>

Photos taken with Leica M6: 100% MF</p>

<p>The latter is about 5% of all the pictures I take. It's nice to use the Leica occasionally.</p>

[yeknom02]

<p>For any staged shot, I take the autofocus off and take the extra time to really fine tune the focus in live view. I leave the autofocus on for all street/quick-shoot photography, which is maybe 70-80% of what I do.<br>

So the answer to your question is 20-30%</p>

[g dan mitchell]

<p>I'm a pragmatist about these things - it depends on the shot, on the situation, and on the lens I'm using.</p>

<p>If the shot is one in which absolute focus is a truly critical thing (and it is not always the most important thing), and I'm using a lens capable of very high resolution, and I have sufficient time to work slowly and methodically (and one does not always have such time) I like to use Live View to nail the focus and to carefully preview DOF.</p>

<p>I virtually never use the viewfinder screen for manual focus. Frankly, in almost all cases the AF system will be better and more consistent.</p>

[richard_struck]

<p>Here is an explanation of manual focus with the 85mmL</p>

<p>http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=821827</p>

[brent_morando1]

<p>roughly anywhere from .00001%-.00002%.</p>