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Infinity focus issue with NX300 in night shots

Started Mar 2, 2014 | Discussions thread
Matt Everglade Regular Member • Posts: 200
Re: Infinity focus issue with NX300 in night shots

Focussing for night shots is tricky since we usually don’t have enough light to use the autofocus. There are mainly three options:

  1. If there is any light source far away you can try to focus on this point. Afterwards set the focus to manual focus to lock it.
  2. If the previous failed try to set your ISO to the maximum value, turn on the framing mode and enable manual focus with the MF Assist setting set to “Enlarge 8x”. This is only for focussing and is needed to show you the stars as bright as possible on your display. Now try to focus until you see sharp dots or at least one proper focussed star. You can set reset the changed settings (framing mode, MF assist, ISO) after you got a proper focus.
  3. In the case both methods fail you need to do some try and error on focussing, sorry

Source: How to photograph the stars

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