This was my best crop - needed to keep the whole of the tall tree in - just think the people are a bit 'lost' - feedback welcome
mine only goes up to 7000 then its hi1 hi2 (whatever that is) but I tried it on my fishtank with the lights off and it was that dark I couldnt see anything in the viewfinder, the pic brought up a pic of my clownfish in full colour as if the lights were on. have yet to try any star pics with this yet.
I'd keep the ISO low for astronomy Phantom. Tiny points of light as a subject matter and noise on the chip don't mix well. 30 seconds to a minute exposure time or you may start to see trailing and even the best tripod will jiggle in a breeze at those kinds of shutter speed. There will be the digital equivalent of reciprocity failure with such long exposures but by then it will be all false colour anyway so it won't be noticeable to any degree.
No I wouldn't dream of too high a iso for stars. Hours of sitting out in the cold taking pics of the Sky learned me that lesson lol. I'm just going to see how high I can get away with Now....400 being the max with my last cam.
When I bought my Meade 'goto' telescope my boss bought me a Nikon T mount for it for my SLR. What a bloody faff shooting on film. Of course, when I went digital I bought Canon so it wouldn't fit anyway. Perhaps I should get a new one and have another punt. It all seems a bit pointless when NASA keeps churning out stuff like this.
had been thinking of the telescope/camera thing but hadnt got a clue what to get or what results you get for your money.
With astronomical telescopes you do get exactly what you pay for mate, and going just that little bit better costs an arm and a leg. Fixing your camera to it is just a question of a T mount and a remote shutter release. Tracking can be a problem with small 'goto' scopes as they use Alt Azi mounts and tend to jerk so deep space objects are out of the question really. The moon is always easy peasy and there's a new technique that helps you get cracking exposures, compensating for the 'bright thing on a dark background' scenario. It's called High Dynamic Range exposure and it's perfect for astronomical photography. Not much cop for much else, but perfect for astronomical photography. He pulled the pin and sent the grenade soaring high into the drab, grey December sky, but it was okay, he knew they'd sort that in post production...
There are a few vids on youtube but the pro's seem to catch the perfect pic in one frame, i aint gonna tell how many i took tonight just to get 20 or so decent images
tons probably, I was lucky that was all done within ten pics lol but then the pro's have all the lights an all, I used my sink for the reflection and shone a led torch into it then the fastest shutter I could get.....and thats not a macro lens lol
