Thread: My new toy: a canon

Originally Posted by one_iota

Typical Nikon owner (see Pedro's wise observation)

Thought Pedro's comment was spot on especially as you own a Defender!

Originally Posted by one_iota

Yes it does RAW and the software that came with the camera is not too shabby according to the reviews. I need to spend some time getting my brain around that.

I've heard the software with the Canon isn't to bad for "with camera" stuff. Easiest description is shooting RAW produces something like a digital negative, shooting JPEG is like having it already developed and ready to print. You can do a lot more correction to a RAW and re-saving it doesn't loose information like a JPEG (even something as simple as cropping a JPEG looses detail in the compression of the saved image).

Originally Posted by one_iota

Canon is the preferred DSLR camera for astrophotography due to its low noise on long exposures. Canon setout to fill this niche.

Yes I realise that used to be the fact with Canon, I'm not sure where it stands now as Nikon has nailed them down in the noise race but on the down side both of them are putting in better IR filters. Don't know whose the best now.

I dunno - I was shooting at ISO 6400 the other night and didn't have any noise problems...

Welcome to the world of dSLR cameras, one_iota - one of the many hobbies guaranteed to remove money from your wallet almost as quickly as Land Rover ownership.

It's cool - it's fun!

Originally Posted by drifter

I dunno - I was shooting at ISO 6400 the other night and didn't have any noise problems...

Turn the iPod up louder

I find my Nikon is noisy above ISO12800 but ISO6400 isn't much different to ISO200

Originally Posted by slt

Cool!

A good percentage of my camper's purpose is to act as a mobile observatory ... though still humming and aahhing about a "proper" telescope too. Got the family a Celestron Nexstar for Chrissie, and we're loving it. We should compare notes one day.

And enjoy the camera .... started with somthing similar (30D) but eventually woke up to Nikon too

Hi Gunter,

I came across this clip via Astronomy Picture of the Day on this site http://www.tierrayestrellas.com/ciel.../index_eng.htm

[ame="http://vimeo.com/6301854"]Viaje alucinante by Daniel Lopez on Vimeo[/ame]

He uses Canons 300D and 400D

But I'd love his Takahashi scope:

http://www.tierrayestrellas.com/ciel...ide/equipo.htm

amazing vid

Fantastic Mahn! (and yes APoD is one of my home pages in the browser). I've been playing around with time lapses too, but so far either the moon was too bright, or it was cloudy. And on my last camping trip I was rudely interrupted by a bunch of hoons who decided the campground was a good spot for a bit of spotlighting



Btw, I'm lusting after a Tak FSQ-106 ... more portable for my mobile Puma observatory

That's a lovely shot even with the possum spotters intrusion.

Where was that taken?

It looks a bit like Dunns Swamp near Kandos or Dumaresq Dam in Armidale.

You know your dams Mahn

Dumaresq, in mid-January. The bright 'star' just above the horizon is Mars.