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Hey Leo just put it on AF just before dark take the pic at something in the distance and just leave it there and switch to Manual
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Yes, I do this with most of my lenses EXCEPT this is a manual focus lens. That is where my problem lies, I've done that for years with auto-focus lenses, when switched over to manual focus they don't change when I move the camera as long as I don't touch the focus ring.
Thank you gentlemen still but auto-focus is out.
Bojan my Nikon has 10 times zoom on live view but it's pathetic in the dark, it's just noise regardless of what settings I use (f2.8 -22000 ISO either 15-30 seconds or bulb exposure. I've seen this mentioned elsewhere about this camera (by people other than myself), it really is bad.
I'm going to get a poly plumbing fitting (or make something out of sheet brass) and figure out my own wire screen for a Bahtinov mask.
The Canon however, I had a friends 5D mk4 for a couple of months and it's live view in the dark with the same lens (and F to EOS adapter) was AMAZING, I got some nice Milky Way shots from my friends farm with that camera. I could have had his old original 5D which doesn't have live view very cheap, I had it here for over a year but with numerous old Nikon lenses it made sense to get Nikon when the opportunity came up to buy an affordable, used full frame camera.
Had I known about the live view I may have been swayed the other way.
Same friend has an 800mm lens he paid $20,000 for new, he wanted me to bring that home with his Mk4 and play but I declined, now had I gone Canon I may have eventually taken him up on that offer.....
I may go out today and try and find infinity but, I've always found daylight infinity is never spot on the same as star infinity, or my eyes are bad (which they really are, the result of staring into 400 picture tubes per day from a few inches (they emit x ray radiation)), one of my jobs at National was staring into the screen from inches away with my hand feeling around blind making adjustments within. Oh yes, I got some nasty shocks too, they used to run a lot of models with live chassis (240 volts across the entire chassis).
I will however take my 35mm and 85mm Rokinon/Samyang lenses out and see if they have auto focus (I don't remember, I don't use them often) and if they do mark them for night time use.