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How can I get correct focus on the moon or stars with my DSLR? [duplicate]
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How to nail focus for DSLR astrophotography?
I don't know if D5100 is right camera for this kind of stuff, but I would like to shoot night sky covering moon, stars and if any ...
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How can I focus on the moon [duplicate]
I'm technically a beginner when it comes to anything other than point and shoot photography so I apologise if I don't explain myself clearly.
I have a Pentax Q with an 85-200mm K lens, I'm using a Q ...
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Canon EOS80D would not focus [duplicate]
While in manual mode with auto focus, could not get the camera to focus for night astrophotography. Tried different combinations of ISO, TV and AV. I noticed that the EV was all the way to the right....
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How do I set the focus in long exposure night sky shots?
I want to catch a good long exposure (5 - 15 seconds) shot of the International Space Station in the night sky as it passes over my city.
Setting the ISO higher (say, to 100) and the exposure time is ...
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Why do some lenses focus past infinity?
On the kit 18-55 lens that came with my Nikon D5100 I have noticed that when trying to focus on infinity for shots in dark conditions (star-trails, etc) the lens tends to move past infinity out of ...
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How can I do astrophotography with my 70-300mm lens?
I got a Nikon 70-300mm lens as it was on discount. I want to know if I can do astrophotography with it? I want to maximize the use of the lens. I wanted to get a 34-300 mm lens, but it was expensive.
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Why do I have blurry star trails?
Last weekend I was experimenting with capturing star trails. I tried taking a set of 9 photos of the stars and Milkway (ISO 1600, f/2.8, 30 seconds exposure). Here is resulting combined photo (stacked ...
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What is the best way to focus when doing night photography or astrophotography?
Last night, when I was attempting to do some astrophotography, I found it rather difficult to focus on the stars/tress/buildings in nearly pitch darkness. The Live View feature doesn't show much as it ...
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How do I choose a lens to photograph the Milky Way?
I'm looking at buying a new lens for some night photography out in rural Australia. I'm in the middle of a national park for the next 6 months, so light pollution isn't an issue, and the skies are too ...
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Focus to infinity with 10-18mm canon lens
I am using a canon 10-18mm wide angle lens on a Canon t3 camera.
I want to try shooting some stars at night. So I want to focus the lens to infinity.
But the lens has no hard stop to it, or any sort ...
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Infinity focus problem
When I shoot with my camera with many lenses at relatively wide apertures, and try to focus to infinity, (manually, using zoomed live view or otherwise), I find that end result pictures are not ...
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How to take the night skies and meteor showers? [duplicate]
I have a Nikon D5200 and last night I went to take few night sky pictures hoping to capture a passing meteor. There were plenty of meteors I seen last night, but I was able to capture only one. ...
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Focussing on a star with wide angle 14mm lens
Has anyone discovered a better way than trial and error to focus on a star - (for Milky Way Astrophotography)? I am using a Canon 5D Mk2 with a 14-40mm lens at 14mm. My Settings are ISO 12800 and ...
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Is it necessary to have a tripod and remote to take pictures of a starry sky? [duplicate]
Also, does the exposure time change if the camera is shaken and it has to focused again? I did have an ISO of 3200 and shutter speed of 1/125. All I obtained was a dark sky. Its the first time I went ...
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How do I find infinity focus with a kit lens when there's not enough light for optical verification? [duplicate]
I have a D7200 which I want to use at long distances in low light photography. The kit lens, a 18-140 does not have focus markers on it. Furthermore, the focus ring does not stop hard at any point. ...
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