Infinity focusing on Sony RX100

[strummerville]

Ok, a bit of a niche request, but I know that RX100 is quite popular on here. I tried to photograph the moon this evening with my RX100i - set the ISO to 100; f11 on A priority. Problem I have is setting the manual focus to infinity. I set the focus to M and turned the front ring, but it won’t have it. Sure, it’ll focus manually on objects in the room etc, but not distant, poorly lit ones (the moon!) Any ideas?

Thanks

[Simpo Two]

Doesn't sound like manual focus to me! The brightness of the subject should be irrelevant.

[rich888]

Selecting M from the upper rotating dial allows you to manually change the shutter speed and aperture, it doesn't control the focusing.

In order to change from auto to manual focusing you need to go into the menu > then look for 'Focus Mode' and change to 'Manual Focus' which on my Mk3 is located under the first tab that looks like a camera and select the third page.

[strummerville]

Yes, sorry - didn’t make it clear. I did set Manual focus in the menu (I know M on the top dial is for exposure) but when I turned the front dial to adjust the focus manually, it wouldn’t make much difference.

[rich888]

I must admit that I tried taking a few photos of the moon using a compact camera many years ago and ended up with a load of very blurry photographs so gave up!

I posted a thread on here asking for advice on moon pics which resulted in some fabulous photos being uploaded from other users.

Edited to add: have located the thread which may be of help to you: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[strummerville]

Thanks for the help! Yes, the RX is a quite capable camera but I need to practice my tripod mounted Astro photography...

[Monty Python]

Apparently you have to turn the manual focussing ring quickly for it to register that you want it to do it:

https://community.sony.com/t5/Cybershot-Cameras/RX...

[strummerville]

Thank you.