I have a 50mm prime lens that’s really awful at focusing. How do I learn to manually focus for street photography?

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    11 months ago

    As others have said, your difficulty might be from shootingnwith a shallow depth of field. Instead of shooting atblike f/1.4, f/1.8, or whatever you widest apwrture is… shoot at like f/8. This increases your depth of field, makes it easier to get what you want in the focal plane while manually focusing. Save wide open aperture for controlled environments/subjects when manual focusing.

    The above and practice isnoretty much how you get better. The above at least eliminates a potential technical difficulty you might be experiencing.