My 50mm f/1.4 has a hard focus stop at infinity. This is really handy when it comes to focusing on the night sky, and trying to take pictures of the stars. My camera, however, looks like crap at night when you get past ISO 400 – noise rules the scene. Either you can do a dark field capture (in camera) which destroys detail, or you can power down the camera after the RAW file is captured, and get a “clean”, but noisy file. Ironic, isn’t it? What’s equally ironic is my first and last shots tonight were my best.

Photos on flickr.