Canon S3 IS

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Yeehaa!
The camera just arrived.
Here's a link that will tell you all about it.
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2006_reviews/s3is.html
Gotta go play now.

[h0ughy (David)]

happy snapping.........

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

The first macros out of the camera.

The spider could have fit onto a one cent piece.

[casstony]

I gave my wife one of these for her birthday - very versatile little camera. Fast too. The video capability almost makes a seperate video camera redundant. We also spent the first hour or two photographing small rocks, fingerprints, etc.

[spacezebra (Petra)]

Excellent news JJJ - the pics look great. More to come I hope.......

Cheers Petra

[RB (Andrew)]

Excellent jjj, that's a great camera, you're gonna love it.

The spider macro shot is amazing !

[woosydiver]

Hi jjjnettie

A bit of an old thread but......................

Are you using your S3is with a scope? If so, could you explain how your physically connecting it & using it?

I have the same camera but yet to buy a telescope, I want to make sure I buy one that I can use with my camera.

Thanks

Steve

[joshman (Josh)]

i had that camera for a while, but my needs were outgrowing it. it is a fantastic camera, fast, fantastic quality, superb super macro function...just watch it or you'll be taking photos of the dust on your lens it's true!!! they aren't wrong when they say it's range is from 0-10cm!

as for connecting to a telescope...i know there is a lens hood adapter for it, that puts a 52mm or 58mm thread onto it (depending which of the adapters you use!, so you can attatch filters and the like, i'm unsure if there's a way to connect the thread to a telescope...

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Howdy,
Steve, I don't actually connect the camera to the telescope, I just butt the lens up to the eyepiece of the scope. This method is called Afocal photography.
You can buy a Universal Digiscope Adapter from eg. www.MyAstroShop.com.au. It will hold the camera up to the eyepiece for you.
You can use the camera with some success by just using it on a tripod. Taking lots of short exposures and stacking them in DSS or Registax.
I've captured some pretty nice images of the brighter nebulas doing this.
Its a good little camera for what it is, but it's no DSLR.
I've really enjoyed pushing it to it's limits.

[citivolus (Ric)]

Try an STDT96 from
http://www.scopetronics.com/dtsystems.htm#canon


I used to use one on a G1 with a fair amount of success. The attachment was taken with a G1 with an LX90 and 25mm eyepiece, with this adapter.

Eric

[woosydiver]

Thanks all.

BTW, joshman - not sure how serious I can take someone who has a boken bucket on their head??

[joshman (Josh)]

hahaha, that's my space helmet!!!!!!