How to Focus on the Stars in the Dark - Astrophotography Tip
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- It can be easy to rely on your camera's autofocus during the day when there is enough ambient light for the camera to dial in focus. But you'll need to manually focus the camera when the day turns to night.
Many people find this concept difficult to understand, and rightfully so. If you aren't comfortable using your camera in the dark, setting manual focus can be a nightmare.
To properly expose at night, use the focus magnifier, which digitally zooms your camera's display, allowing you to see the stars much better. Scroll around to find a star, then dial the focus in until that star is as small as possible. Take a test shot to ensure the focus is perfect, and then you don't have to touch the manual focus ring for the rest of the night!
Hopefully this helps you to dial in your manual focus on the stars in night photography.
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Somewhere near infinity, that's hilarious.
Why? 😂
It is a weird statement physically and mathematically.
@@AustinJamesJackson Because the suggestion being that "infinity" would be too far away, as if you could focus on the Big-Bang-Background-Radiation :D
@@AustinJamesJacksonbecause you didn't focus somewhere near infinity, you focussed on infinity. Your lens and camera is just confused on where that is.
Some lenses are made a bit better and infinity on the lens is their true infinity. Then you can just turn it to infinity on the focus dial and everything is peachy. I'm lucky my Laowa lens is like that.
It does focus at everything at infinity already for the Sony lens as far as I am aware .
Also setting the function button on Sony to focus zoom instead of digging through the menu is a huge time saver.
It will automatically focus zoom every time once you turn this setting on!
I feel like this is common sense, but I appreciate the tip
Definitely, but I can’t tell you how many people struggle with focusing in the dark!
not to beginners
Ok this is really cool to have these settings. Thank you
Glad you like them!
With my particular wide angle lens if you set it to infinity everything from a few feet to the stars will be in focus. It’s pretty handy. I enjoy not having to worry about focus.
That’s awesome!
As someone new to photography this belped a bunch!
I tried to take some astrophotography pictures the other night, the sky turned out really grey in all of them. Any idea whag would cause this? There are plenty of stars in the picture
Hard to say without seeing the photos, but generally the sky isn’t going to be super colorful especially when shooting in RAW. It’s pretty dull unless you’re shooting at the Milky Way.
thank u!!
You're welcome!
Why is there so much noise? I have the same problem, that i didnt know what was the star and what was the noise.. any options how to avoid it? Thanks for reply, have a nice day!
I think the noise may be from me filming this!
Does that app only work on Sony phones or does it also work on samsung?
What app?
MF Assist in other words: wingman?
Yeah!!
cool, but not clear for me why so shallow f2.8 and not something like f13 so more stars are in focus? .. am I missing something?
F2.8 allows more light to hit the cameras sensor, which is important at night. Also, aperture won’t matter as much for the stars because they are all so far away. You can get them all in focus at f2.8 easily.
hmm.. I thought that more light you get because of so long shutter speed (you can have it open how long you need to get more light) therefore I thought that aperture don't need to be wide open, rather to have more things focus. Or is so little light that even 10-20min exposure will not make enough light? thx.
He mentioned in another comment that it was a 4min exposure. If he went for F13, that would be 4.5 stops slower. That would be around an hour and a half worth of exposure time to get the same level of exposure.
It's just not a few minutes more, it's an hour.
And again he is using a wide angle lens, everything from like 5meters away all the way until literal infinity will be in focus anyways.
There would be no point in stopping down to get more in focus. Some lenses you stop down from F2 to F2.8 because they are soft wide open or they have other issues, but you never stop down to get more in focus with astro.
@@valdemarjrgensen8072 hmm..thank you for explanation. 👍
How long did you keep your shutter open to capture that photo?
4 minutes on a star tracker!
@@AustinJamesJackson thanks!