Digital photography

Ludd - have you got your photos online somewhere? Be interesting to see what kind of stuff you shoot

There's a small selection here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/62297839@N05/sets/72157628588354565/

The nebulae and the ISS and starscapes are shot with my 1000D. Planets with a Philips webcam.

Here's a more recent Jupiter with my faster tiny camera:

Wow! Thats mental. I love the milky way ones.

People here that photograph conferences / events - jpeg?

Yea I did for a while.

I'm able to shoot at close to 100fps

What?
With what kind of camera?

What?
With what kind of camera?

This chap: http://www.modernastronomy.com/camerasPlanetary.html#QHY5L-II

Mind you, anything dimmer than Jupiter or the moon is going to cause trouble, as there's no way you can get enough light onto the sensor and keep that sort of frame rate. But that Jupiter shot above was averaging about 97fps, which gave me enough frames to stack without the rotation of the cloud patterns causing any smearing.

wow.

It's been an interesting time, watching how the early experiments with consumer webcams with USB1 connections (the Philips ToUCam was highly rated because it had a sensitive CCD rather than a CMOS sensor) led to dedicated planetary cameras with USB2 or 3, still without breaking the bank.

Ludd, that ring nebula (M57?) is incredible. I know there are thousands of higher res/cleaner images but something about it being lost amid the black even though it's light years across makes it pretty special. great pic. Didn't know it was so...close, for lack of a better term.

This is opening a whole new can of worms to play with.

Oh yes, and some of them worms are very very spendy! I've spent a huge amount on kit that's purely for astrophotography, but it would be all to easy to let it get out of control. Clouds and light pollution are perhaps the main things that control it, but then there's the cloudy night fever that sends you off searching for more kit or more projects for when the skies are clear again.

I might look in to renting something to take to the Scilly Isles next summer. Its a very, very dark area.

At the very least, I'll bring an ultra-wide and the dslr.

Swivelly screen = asking to break.

This seems like a good deal if you are after low noise:
http://www.apertureuk.com/Can-Photo/5D@370/5D@370.html

Who advertises a camera like that, laying on its back, wide open sooking in loads of dust?

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2014/03/asx-interviews-antoine-dagata-simple-desire-exist-2014.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+Americansuburb+(ASX+|+AMERICAN+SUBURB+X+|+Photography+&+Culture

I really like his photos though I often have no idea what he is talking about; he resembles someone in a Thomas Bernhard novel.

Who advertises a camera like that, laying on its back, wide open sooking in loads of dust?

Possibly the best camera shop in London. I'm pretty sure they clean it. I bought a D700 from them last week (to replace the one I bought off h20 a month ago that got stolen), and the sensor hadn't a speck.

Canon 1000D / stock zoom

Thanks.
I thought that it's actually a bit "boring" really - but it's cute, in a way.
Plus there's a sort-of fence in it, so there you go..

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Possibly the best camera shop in London. I'm pretty sure they clean it. I bought a D700 from them last week (to replace the one I bought off h20 a month ago that got stolen), and the sensor hadn't a speck.

I've heard great things about them too.

I know, still irks me to see it though. #ocd4life

Meh. Unless you're shooting f8 upwards, even on FF, dust on the sensor is pretty forgiving.

Possibly the best camera shop in London.

Glad to hear they're still going, with a good rep. Great shop, I bought and sold most of my kit through Richard and Patrick when I lived in London.
The camera has probably been photographed like that to show off the near-pristine condition of the lens mount - a key indicator for most of us. Don't worry, they keep a clean shop iirc.

Canon 1000D / stock lens (plus wrong lens hood)

LOL

Can anybody else see that sofa up there is laughing?