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Originally Posted by White Rabbit
Thanks guys.
First off, Leon, I'd love to buy your camera but I'm not quite in the market ATM having just bought the mount, so I'm just starting to do some research on the subject, and I plan to take my time  . BTW what in your opinion would be the diffence between buying the 30D and 400D. I've been looking at the 400D, and I like what I see for the price. I'm looking at buying the body only and not all the bells and whistles. My partners dad is a photographer so I should be able to pick up some cheap lenses from him, apparently...
Houghy.
The LX200R comes in at about 12.7kg and the mount says that the weight capacity for the mount is 13.5kg. If you add the weight of the camera that should fall within the weight limits, no?
As I said I live in the inner west of sydney so I'm not expeting to do 5 hour exposures, surely the 10" scope is ok for the mount. Please let me know where my thinking is in error.
Thanks
Sandy |
Sandy, I have to agree with Houghy, I have the HEQ5 PRO and I have just mounted a 8" x1000 f5 reflector with a 70mm guide scope and it totals 11 kg and that is definitely about the limit.
Don't forget that if you get into the serious side of imaging you will eventually want to mount a guide scope too.
Cheers Daniel.