On Mon, 23 Nov 98 21:12:31 GMT, w.j.markerink@a1.nl (Willem-Jan Markerink) wrote:
>In article <3658B3DE.AD878CF0@concentric.net>,
> Ernie wrote:
>>Would you trust the AF on your camera/lens if you were shooting the one
>>time "shot of shots"--assuming you had the time to manually focus?

>With Canon's Full-Time-Manual focusing (FT-M, on high-end tele's as E-M),
>and AF-start moved to a button on the back, you can decide till the very
>last moment whether to use AF or focus by hand....or the best of both
>worlds: prefocus by hand, and let AF do the last % of precision....

I would do it the other way around (if the VF were good enough to
make that possible...! ;-) - let the AF get me almost there (there
is too much error in AF to say, "get me there"...;-), then touch up
the focus manually to get it right-on...! ;-)