Went out on a rare clear night to a wetlands near me to take some photos of the stars. As it was so dark, and the stars are so small, I had to rely on the focus peaking function of my camera to tell if the stars were in focus or not.
I’ve got home and started to process the photos, and I’ve found out that despite the camera telling me that they were in focus, they clearly weren’t.
Hey ho, what’s a wasted few hours in the freezing cold between friends…
Always good to verify in playback after a test shot for astrophotography!
You can flip it into MF and focus to infinity, do a test photo and it should be pretty dang close to perfect focus and you can tweak after.
Definitely!
I struggle to see the stars on the small screen on the camera though, especially in the cold and dark, which is why I used the focus guide. I don’t think I’ll be trusting it as much in the future though 🙈
This might make you laugh - in manual focus mode on this lens, almost a quarter of the focus range is marked as infinity! I haven’t figured out what Sony thinks I need to focus on past the stars yet 🤣
Ah yeah my Panasonic mirrorless is kind of like that, it has a ‘range’ of infinity focus which is annoying!
Advantage of playback mode is you can zoom way in on a star and that makes it easier to see.