Manual focus - I suck at it!!

[Lance B]

I have only just started to learn how to use the manual focus with my shorter lens and I can already see its benefit in allowing me to focus on just one (and the most important) area in my photos...especially for close up work. Will it be more difficult for me to focus manually with my longer lens?

Not necessarily. When using longer lenses, you are generally focusing in on a particular spot and the longer lens will help by magnifying that spot and thus making it easier to manually focus. However, with wide angle lenses, you are generally well back from any particular object to focus on and this can make it more difficult to accurately focus.

I thinks I'll have to make it a point to practise. Thanks for all of the above information.