Hi all,
Has anyone used a 50mm lens for astrophotography? I recently purchased the Canon EF-S 50mm f/1.8 and find it's a great little lens. It lets in lot more light than I've been able to capture in not-dark-enough-but-ok-for-simple-astro-shot areas with my tele-macro but I can't seem to get the hang of the settings. I end up with blurry stars. I think I changed the f-stop from 2.8 as my original setting to 3.5, from memory, with ISO1600 for about 20s but it still looks like my stars are suffering from a bokeh effect.
Hoping to try it at 4.5 instead in the next couple of days, as recommended in an article I read, but does anyone have any experience using this lens or advice on better settings?
I know it's probably not the ideal lens for astrophotography but it was recommended as a simple starter lens for this purpose. I can see it has potential from the shots I managed to get, so I'm thinking it's more a question of my settings than the lens itself.
I am tossing up between my three lenses for my holiday, which includes a short trip to Atacama. I can only take two with me and I've pretty much decided on my tele-macro which is good for far away animals etc and I also know I can get decent (if narrow) star shots with it. My other lenses are the 50mm and my kit lens (18-55mm f/3.5-5.6). Haven't managed to get the hang of the kit lens for astrophotography either, but apparently it's supposed it be okay for landscape shots (obviously if you can get the right settings!).
Ay advice would be appreciated
Thanks in advance
