Fuji GFX50 set-up with mount and autoguider from Hong Kong

 

ONE CLEAR NIGHT 180 SHOTS ATTEMPT AT ORION WITH EF24 AND 90D

My Orion shot with EF24/1.4 @2.5 on moded EOS 90D, where I am now

The reference Orion, where I want to be.

Reference by Skypoints Photography

EXIF

Canon EOS EOS Ra

Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L ll @ 50mm

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

Sky:

4 panel panorama, each a stack of 7 x 60s @ ISO1600

Foreground:

Panorama of 4x 2s @ ISO400 during blue hour

 

THE MOON AND THE CITY

 

MACRO WITH LX100

 

ORION AND FRIENDS ARE BACK!

I did a quick run of the EOS 90D (moded) with Samyang AF85/1.4 shot at f1.4 and ISO2000 ... untracked. It's been quite some time since the sky cleared, even for these shots clouds moved in quite quickly after only 20 shots. Purple fringing on the AF85 is quite strong as observed on previous occasions.

Since 90D is a cropped body these shots below are effectively 85x1.6mm focal range ie. 135mm. My Samyang 135mm would be changed to 216mm focal length, and the Askar 200mm with light pollution filter would be 320mm!!!

Part of Orion with Samyang 85mm on 90D moded, single shot, untracked

Pleiades 8 shot stack on Sequator152

Orion 10 shot stack on Sequator152

This will be my reference shot : Shot on my Sky-Watcher star adventurer tracker with Canon 5D Mk4 and 24-70 lens. Around an hours worth of images combined to increase the information captured, then stacked together in DSS and processed in Photoshop.

NIFTY-FIFTY : CARL ZEISS JENA TESSAR 50MM F2.8 (2ND UNIT)

 Received my 2nd unit Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f2.8 from the UK yesterday and decided to make a few shots just to confirm all is OK. This unit costs me GBP40, doesn't look much different than the earlier unit with the exception of the color of the distance scale, orange on this unit and green on the earlier one. Both are "MC" for muil-coated.