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Maybe it's a reflex of my D40 having only 3 focus points or maybe it's because I had contact with a film SLR camera when I was young, but I always use the central visor point to get my subject in focus and then move the camera to recompose the scene.

How do you do it yourself? Central visor point to focus and the recompose, or compose first and then use the settings to change the focus point?

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i think that is what I do.haha.

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Canon EOS 5D + 50mm f/1.8

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I always get focus with the centre point and if need be recompose the shot. It's how my old superzoom camera worked and it's how I will use my new dSLR.

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"Where does the lens end and the camera begin?..."
Sony Alpha DSLR-A100
DT 18-70 mm F3.5-5.6 (Kit)

I prefer to focus then recompose. I usually tell the camera to AF on the center point only.

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Nikon D40 w/18-135mm, Quantaray 70-300mm
Adobe Photoshop CS2 w/Eyecandy Plug in, Paint.Net (Open source Photoshop clone), Photomatix, Google Picasa.

Luis, nice poll!
I extended the poll with two other alternatives, as I feel that there are people with other ways to focus out there (like me), even the die-hard MFer!
Hope you don't mind.

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Thomas (beware: Nikon-fanboy and moderator!) My Lens Reviews, My Pictures, My Photography Blog
D800+assorted lenses

Well now I am down with the 3rd option, I wasn't sure in the begining so I put the 1st one, now I have an option that I understand, and that is what I do.

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Canon EOS 5D + 50mm f/1.8

http://flickr.com/photos/nathan_ward

It's rare that I set focus after framing the scene, but I often get frustrated with AF and use manual.

Any camera (Superzoom, DLSR or even Sony HDV FX-1E Video Camera!) I always manual focus, never trust that pesky auto lol!

I suppose the auto focus is fine 9 times out of 10, but sometimes just a little manual nudge can make it better!

One problem I have with small screens is when using manual focus, you can't really tell if it is sharp (I know you can zoom in on the image but still) because of low resolution screens. 300dpi 3inch screens (near 0.9Mp) should be comming in now, rather than 640x480 which is only 0.3Mp, so its far easier to tell right away.

Anywho rant over, i'm going to make a new and exciting topic

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Canon 17-40 F/4L USM + Canon 24-70 F/2.8L USM + Canon 28mm F/1.8 USM + Canon 70-200 F/2.8L USM IS + Canon 85mm F/1.8 USM
Canon Speedlite 580EX II + Canon Speedlite 540EZ + 2 x Nikon SB-80DX
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Manual focus is a pain with the lenses I own because of small focus rings and the croped view but macro (as macro as it can be with 1:4 mag. on zoom lenses ) shots requires it sometimes.

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Minolta primes: 2.8/20 2.8/24 1.7/50 2.8/135
Minolta zooms: 28-135 35-70 70-210(beercan) kit
Minolta cameras: Dynax 5D 7000
M42: Pentax Asahi S-M-C Takumar 1.4/50 and 2.8/105 Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 2.4/35 Industar-61L/Z Kiron 2.8/105 Macro