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Your Camera's Default Focus Setting Is Quietly Ruining Your Landscape Photos
I spent an entire vacation chasing a single waterfall shot. Tripod, my sharpest lens, f/11 like clockwork, and I still came home with soft images that made me want to throw my memory card into the river I’d been photographing. It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out the problem had nothing to do with my gear or my exposure. It was something I had never thought to question: the autofocus mode my camera shipped with, still active, still making decisions I didn’t know it was making.