manual focus
Photographer adjusts sharpness
Manual focus is a camera setting where the photographer adjusts the lens to achieve sharpness, rather than letting the camera do it automatically.
Photographers use manual focus for precise control in tricky situations—low light, macro photography, or when autofocus locks onto the wrong subject.
I switched to manual focus to get the foreground sharp.
- depth of fieldZone of acceptable sharpness
- peakingReaching highest point
- apertureAdjustable optical inlet
- focal lengthLens-to-convergence-point distance
- fine-tuningSmall precise optimization adjustments
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