In our Complete Guide to Autofocus Part 1 you learned how autofocus points work and found out about the autofocus system types—active as well as phase detection and contrast detection passive AF systems—and which ones of them are used nowadays.

Since the topic of autofocus is so wide and tends to be a bit complicated for most of photographers, we decided to divide our story into a couple of parts. Today we will talk about the focus modes available in modern DSLR cameras and explain you how they are different and which one you should use in certain situations.

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