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Professor Newman on… Theory and practice

n an article last year (AP 28 June 2022) I wrote about the fundamental differences in the way that autofocus works in mirrorless and SLR cameras. This applies even in cases where the cameras apparently use the same phase detection autofocus method. It arises from the fact that the specialist autofocus sensor unit in an SLR is capable of making a much more

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