Using manual focus in wildlife filmmaking can feel intimidating — but with a few key techniques, it becomes a powerful creative tool. In this beginner-friendly guide, I walk through how to approach ...

Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac For most photos, the iPhone camera proves perfectly adequate. You just hold up your phone, point it, and shoot. The exposure and focus are almost always correct, or ...

I switch the mode on my camera from autofocus to manual focus, and just like that, I receive the freedom to completely and single-handedly compose the perfect image — if perfection did exist. There ...

Focus peaking is designed to boost your accuracy when focusing manually. This visual aid is viewed via an electronic viewfinder or rear LCD screen and indicates areas of focus via a flat-coloured ...

The camera on the LG G4 may not be stacked with multiple shooting modes, but the integrated Manual mode does offer the kind of DSLR-level controls and features that any budding amateur or pro ...

I really want an 85mm f/1.4 AF lens. I can't afford an 85mm f/1.4 AF lens, but I can afford a MF one. I want to use it for concert photography, which I've recently got hooked on (I'm currently using a ...

Adjusting aperture alone can only do so much to get sharp images with a wide depth of field — sometimes, getting both point A and point B tack sharp in one shot is about as possible as a flying pig.

I make a bunch of video with a Logitech c920, and I have problems with the autofocus because I occasionally want to focus the camera on something other than my face, for example if I have objects on a ...