About Auto-focus - can I also use the manual focus ring?

[DawenL]

Hey guys, regarding the auto-focus, I have a question here. Whenever we set our camera to auto-focus, can we still rotate the lens focus ring? I am using Nikon D5000, 18-55mm lens. Your contributions is deeply appreciated. Thx!

[DawenL]

[Jim B.]

Not familiar with the Nikkor lenses,but if it has full time manual focus(It should say this in documentation) you can MF in AF mode.

[Dave Humphries]

On that lens, I think not, I believe the switch on lens barrel is marked "A" and "M".

Most recent Nikkor AF-S lenses are marked "M/A" and "M", these can be manually focused while in AF mode ("M/A"), turning the ring takes it out of AF until you next release and re-apply the half press of shutter button.

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[Shadowman]

Hi Dawen,

Saw your post in the welcome thread. Welcome to the group. The answer to your question is no the focus ring should not move.

Hey guys, regarding the auto-focus, I have a question here. Whenever we set our camera to auto-focus, can we still rotate the lens focus ring? I am using Nikon D5000, 18-55mm lens. Your contributions is deeply appreciated. Thx!

[Blazing fire]

On that lens, I think not, I believe the switch on lens barrel is marked "A" and "M".

Most recent Nikkor AF-S lenses are marked "M/A" and "M", these can be manually focused while in AF mode ("M/A"), turning the ring takes it out of AF until you next release and re-apply the half press of shutter button.

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Dave (Mr Humphries) is right, so is Shadowman.

Your lens should perform similarly to this 85mm f/1.4D (Youtube video).

Edit- hmm, my second sentence is not showing up...

[DawenL]

Thanks guys, I got it.