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Infinity focus issue with NX300 in night shots

Started Mar 2, 2014 | Discussions thread
WMT Junior Member • Posts: 40
Re: Infinity focus issue with NX300 in night shots

Well, manually focusing to infinity with NX300 wouldn't work, because it can actually focus a bit 'beyond' infinity (I think it's needed for contrast AF to work). What you need to do is set the focus assist (magnification) to 8x in the menu, then focus to infinity and rotate focus ring few degrees back to get stars in focus. The magnification should help you and you can find some bright star to focus on. But it's not straightforward 'focus to infinity and shoot' affair. You might need to try it few times, before you get the focus nailed. When you do, just try not to touch the focus ring and you should be good. Or, as already mentioned, you can try to focus on something else (Moon or some other distant object). But you can do without it. I was actually able to get some decent shots of Milky Way with NX200 and 16mm lens (f2,4, 30 seconds exposure, ISO 1600), but it took me a while to figure it out and set up. As I said, lots of trial and error, but can be done.

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