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Shooting the moon with a SX530 HS

Started Feb 2, 2017 | Questions thread
saaber1 Senior Member • Posts: 2,164
Re: Shooting the moon with a SX530 HS

AllFlawed wrote:

lorenzo wrote:

Just remember to turn OFF image stabilization if you are using a tripod! Otherwise IS can induce vibrations and make the image out of focus.

Also, focus the camera at infinity. Otherwise, the image won't be crisp.

How can you do this? In manual focus the lens may overrun infinity and i would have thought a lot of these cheap cameras leave leeway in case the focusing with normal manufacturing tolerances has the end stop falling short of infinity which would be a major problem.

Even with a scene mode for infinity it is still using AF I would have thought.

Finally, the point about what amateur astronomers call *seeing* is important. Many. Ugh ta conditions in the atmosphere are turbulent and images will be, too. Photographing over concrete,driveways, or buildings — e.g., where heat is coming off during the winter — will mess up the images, too.

Manual focus works just fine for this. Here is Jupiter with 4 of its moons and Saturn with the pocket camera sx730is using MF.  900million miles is too far for AF

Sx730

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