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Shooting the moon with a SX530 HS

Started Feb 2, 2017 | Questions thread
lorenzo Regular Member • Posts: 319
Re: Shooting the moon with a SX530 HS

Well, on the digicams I own, I simply go into the Focus setting, and it lets me select the distance.  I push it all the way to the end, to Infinity, and that works fine for night sky shots. One of my much older digicams even has a dedicated Infinity button on the top of the camera.

It's when I don’t do that and leave the focus setting on the default Normal (or, forget that the last time I used the camera I had picked Macro) that the photos come out blurry.

Cameras with a dedicated custom mode can be great for this.  Set all the parameters you want, in advance, including shutter speed, ISO, and focus distance, and simply turn the dial to C when doing constellation shots. Works like a charm.   However, there are some cameras with a C mode that forget certain settings — e.g., the Panasonic ZS40!

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