Another D3200 Auto Focus Problem.....But Solved!

adot45

Senior Member
Always was very unimpressed with this camera but since it didn't sell on ebay, I thought I had better learn to use it properly. Especially when I see brilliant, crisp photos being posted by others. Anyway, just to reinforce the fact that it's usual the "nut behind the wheel" that's the problem.......check this out.

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Picture on the right was what I had been getting with the settings I was using, the auto focus was set to "auto-area"

Picture on the left was the result of a settings change to "Single Point" auto focus. Starting to warm up to this camera (a little).
 

Bob Blaylock

Senior Member
Always was very unimpressed with this camera but since it didn't sell on ebay, I thought I had better learn to use it properly. Especially when I see brilliant, crisp photos being posted by others. Anyway, just to reinforce the fact that it's usual the "nut behind the wheel" that's the problem.......check this out.

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Picture on the right was what I had been getting with the settings I was using, the auto focus was set to "auto-area"

Picture on the left was the result of a settings change to "Single Point" auto focus. Starting to warm up to this camera (a little).

I grew up with the F2—a totally all-manual camera. Having had my D3200 for a couple of years now, I am amazed at the degree of intelligence built into it, in its ability, most of the time, to make for itself the sort of decisions that I was used to making with the F2. But it does have its limits. It certainly helps, if you're going to rely on automatic controls for focus and exposure, to understand how they work, how to adjust how they work, and what their limitations are.

Most of the time, the D3200 gets it right, but some times, it does not. You need to know how to help it make better choices, in some circumstances, and some times, you just need to know when and how to take over full manual control.
 
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