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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BillB" data-source="post: 1243099" data-attributes="member: 65482">Mike:Indeed you did recommend the same thing.  Had I read your thread before, I might have saved myself some trouble.  However, it was fun figuring it out for myself.  In a later experiment, I defocused the scope even further, and found that the camera brought it into sharp focus in the macro mode, but not in the standard AF mode.  I suppose this is because the macro mode allows greater focus latitude for the camera to compensate.  Could this be the reason some people report better results using macro mode autofocusing?I have trouble with a scheme that involves looking for focus using the display, as I can hardly see it in bright light conditions.  I am hoping to work out exactly how much I need to cheat the scope focus before attaching the camera.  I have not experimented with this yet with the lens zoomed in -- hope it works.Bill</blockquote>