3 of Our Favorite Manual Focus Lenses for Street Photography

When is the last time you truly felt like you were being romanced by a lens? For many street photographers, that only comes with manual focus lenses. As a play on words, street photographers like to zone focus.

Colloquially, that means that you're focusing on a specific zone away from you. But one could also interpret it to say that you're in the zone when you're shooting. With manual focus lenses, you're always going to get what you need and want as long as you're careful. That's not always the case with autofocus. So we looked at our Reviews Index to find some of the best manual focus lenses for street photography. .

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2021-5-15 07:00

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