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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eye-level" data-source="post: 90295" data-attributes="member: 6548"><p>If you are new to your camera and you do not come from a pre-1980 film camera background I advise you to spend at least 6 months or so maybe a year doing other things before attempting to learn manual focus and manual operation.  There are just to many other aspects of the camera and photography in general that are more important to your skill set then manual operation.  Once you have a good grasp of these other things then it would be a good time to expand your knowledge and capabilities with manual focus and manual operation.  Trust me I use only manual focus lenses and I select all settings myself and I have been at this for quite some time - it is very difficult to put it all together in a photo.</p></blockquote><p></p>