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Originally Posted by niko
Hi everyone,
I've been enjoying taking star trails and widefields for some time with my Canon 350D. I've got an 18-55mm lens but I really struggle to get accurate focus and find my eyesight no longer good enough to confirm the focus on the back screen. I seem to have wasted many nights taking a series of shots that are too fuzzy to use. This seems partly because the focus ring on the lens goes part infinity.
So - looking for a fixed focal length (or short focal length) lens that focuses on infinity without having to step it back.
Can anyone suggest a suitable lens. I've heard good things about the Tokina 11-16. Does it focus easily?
Are there other recommendations?
many thanks
niko
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Lenses are a bit of a hit and miss. Sometime you get a good one. I focus with a mini-bathinov mask and keep the lens at full aperture so I don't get diffraction spikes in the way. Then I f-stop it. Some lenses are very easy to focus. Some have a very tight CFZ.