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Originally Posted by Spookyer
Yeah, I experimented with more lenses including primes like the 50mm 1.4 that does have an aperture ring. My conclusions are that the STT8300 is not really suitable to use with DSLR lenses. There is nothing wrong with my lenses, they work fine on a DSLR. My STT8300 works fine with my scope. But they don't work fine together. I got some average sort of results with some work but I would guess the spacings and angles are not quite right, as a result it is hard to focus and even stepping down the lenses a fair bit you don't get great results.
A bit disappointing as I bought the recommended stuff to use lenses with the CCD but looks like I will be back to the CCD on the scope and if I want to do widefields it will have to be with the lenses on the DSLR.
Thanks all for your comments and suggestions.
Brett
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I have a FLI Microline 8300 and the Nikon adapter that fits in the filter wheel. I'll try that out at some point.
Martin Pugh did some widefields with an SBIG8300 camera and lenses. Have a look at his site to see which lens he used.
Greg.