AF vs MF

when out shooting, which do you use more?

AF.
I find the MF pretty useless on my 10D due to relatively poor viewfinder.

99% AF .. at least.

Lately, about 99% manual focus for long wildlife shots.

I've been using the long end of my 100-400mm lens with two 1.4 teleconverters, which puts me out to f/8, so there isn't any autofocus left. At first, that was kind of a PITA, but my left hand has learned the focus ring now.

---Bob Gross---

yeah that's something too
robert brought up the fact that he uses MF while taking not quick photos.
i guess if you're taking photos where you have to be quick you'd use AF more.

Auto focus most of the time, but sometimes manual focus works better.

With AF, the camera more or less randomly chooses a point to focus on within the area of the selected AF sensor. Sometimes that's not what you want, for example in macro photography (where the DOF is often very thin). For macro photography, I always use manual focus.

90% AF for me, I find it's a lot more accurate than me most of the time using manual focus

Paul

Only having had my 20D for a week, I have to say 90% AF.

Equally important, though, would be a question regarding the use of all the AF points or do people single out one spot?

I find that for broad-scope pictures, such as landscapes, I use all the AF points, but for most other shots I find that I am singling out the central AF point and using the old focus-lock-and-reframe method to get the picture I really want.

What do others do?

Nearly always AF.

Always a single AF point. Usually the centre one but occasionally one of the others.

AF 99.9%. Due to a defect..My Eyesight, Can't MF to save My life or at least I couldn't with the 300d. haven't tried 20d much yet at MF.
peter.

It all depends. I prefer AF *most* of the time as most of my shots are Macro shots or shots of my niece (who is ALWAYS on the move). But, there are those times when my camera just won't focus on what I want it to focus on at macro distance. So, I use MF. It's rare, though.

FlipsidE

peter/c i'm in the same boat, can't ever tell what is really in focus. may have to get contacts just to shoot.

i agree about the macro/closeup that's when i use MF

AF, except with a TC on my 400s when I can't AF, or when doing Macro.

Bob, I'm surprised at this statement from you! That comes out to f/11 - 2 TCs at 1 stop each brings f/5.6 to f/11.

For me it's nearly allways autofocus,center point .I'm totally used to the focus and reframe thing now
From all the lens testing i do i've found that AF kicks butt completely.Not only is it consistant but i've allmost never beat it by manually focussing .

I have several manual focus lenses i use on EOS and allways have to take a few pics to be sure i've got a well focused one

I shot 99% in AF.

But I think this a function of the focus screen.
I'm planning on getting a fucusing screen that has split focusing and prism.
With the fucusing screen that comes with the camera is usless for MF at least for the elderly poor eye sight people like me