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<blockquote data-quote="Dave_W" data-source="post: 167893" data-attributes="member: 9521">- AF-A is a great &quot;all purpose&quot; setting and generally works well. The times you might consider using AF-C or AF-S is when you want to insure the subject is being properly focused. AF-A, as nice as it is, sometimes gets it wrong- When photographing a number of people in AF-A, your camera software is calculating all the various subjects (faces) and will then determine the optimum hyperfocal point that will allow all the faces (or whatever it is you've told the camera is the subject) in focus.- Optimum setting in what regard? Focus or aperture? For focus it depends upon your subject and how you want the image to look. If you mean aperture, the sharpest images a lens can produce is when you stop it down 1 to 1.5 stops smaller than wide open. - Again, it all depends on the effect you're looking to capture in your image. The beauty of a DSLR is the control you have over the way your image will look. That said, a &quot;one-size-fits-all&quot; setting that would essentially turn your DSLR into a point-n-shoot and I don't think that's what you want to do with your fine camera. Read a few more camera technique books and get yourself a more thorough understanding of photography and I guarantee you'll be glad there's not a 'one-size-fits-all&quot; setting on your camera.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dave_W, post: 167893, member: 9521"] - AF-A is a great "all purpose" setting and generally works well. The times you might consider using AF-C or AF-S is when you want to insure the subject is being properly focused. AF-A, as nice as it is, sometimes gets it wrong - When photographing a number of people in AF-A, your camera software is calculating all the various subjects (faces) and will then determine the optimum hyperfocal point that will allow all the faces (or whatever it is you've told the camera is the subject) in focus. - Optimum setting in what regard? Focus or aperture? For focus it depends upon your subject and how you want the image to look. If you mean aperture, the sharpest images a lens can produce is when you stop it down 1 to 1.5 stops smaller than wide open. - Again, it all depends on the effect you're looking to capture in your image. The beauty of a DSLR is the control you have over the way your image will look. That said, a "one-size-fits-all" setting that would essentially turn your DSLR into a point-n-shoot and I don't think that's what you want to do with your fine camera. Read a few more camera technique books and get yourself a more thorough understanding of photography and I guarantee you'll be glad there's not a 'one-size-fits-all" setting on your camera. [/QUOTE]

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