Last Thursday was my first trip out with the Univeristy of Bristol Photographic Society. The introductory event was based around getting into groups and making fools of yourself, running around Bristol trying to get some obscure photos to show off to the other groups on returning. It was good fun and I even got a couple of alright photos myself.

Looking back at the majority of my photos from evening however, I’m seeing one repeating pattern, infact one that I’ve been seeing for a while now: Just like cameras find auto-focusing hard when it’s dark, I find manual focusing hard when it’s dark. It just becomes impossible to get that pin sharp focusing that you can get when in better lighting conditions. This combined with the high ISO noise I’m getting means I’m just not coming out all that happy with my evening shots. I’m hoping an extra half stop of light and some auto-focusing in the form of a Pentax FA 50mm f/1.4 will help. Still the results aren’t always completely useless, the shot below looks quite nice, especially at lower sizes.