Learning to use back button focus to improve your photography

Tim Wells
3 min readJun 25, 2021

If you’re into photography and part of photography communities on social media then no doubt you’ve come across the term “back button focus". Maybe though you’re still not sure what it is. Basically it lets you separate the task of focusing and taking the photo while providing some other benefits at the same time. Let’s look at the benefits of back button focus (BBF) and why it’s something you should learn to use.

What is back button focus?

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Tim Wells

Self taught software developer and photographer.