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>>258105 >So I'm supposed to be constantly adjusting the manual selection of the AF point to track my subject? If you're tracking a subject, there's a mode on all of the DSLRs I've used that automatically tracks your subject. Which is the main use for a crapload of AF points, incidentally.
>Always telling the camera which point I want it to use? That's about an order of magnitude slower than just focusing manually For you, perhaps. Especially when I don't have a split-prism viewfinder to use, it's a hell of a lot faster for me to pick an AF point. It's just one button on the EOS 20/30/40/50D (and probably 10D/D30/D60, too, but I'm too lazy to look those up). And more accurate with fast lenses, too. I'm guessing the two of us can probably focus on a specific spot in our viewfinders about equally fast with me changing my AF point and you focusing manually. My point being... >So outside of sports photography and maybe PJ, I don't see the need for this OMG 51POINT AF crap. NOT EVERYONE USES A CAMERA EXACTLY LIKE YOU DO. The features you go "Pfft. I don't need that" for are features that other people must have or they miss a lot of shots. I feel thoroughly hamstrung now when I have to use a Rebel and can't set my AF point directly, for instance.
Also, incidentally: >spends a long time hunting to see if one of the other points is "better". Given how phase-detect autofocus works, it should never have to do this. Each AF point immediately knows how far away it is from the thing it's focusing on as soon as you hit the focus button, so it should pick the right one immediately. If it's hunting a lot, it's probably because you've got the AF points hovering over hard-to-focus-on things.
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