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Originally Posted by rustigsmed
i reckon the camera is doing a pretty fine job there Mick, good work and nice processing!
it might also be worth investigating an external aperture mask to control the flares.
Russ
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Thanks Russ, yeah, it's a keeper and stopping down will make it much better. I'll wait and see what happens to the flares then before making any sort of mask though. Cheers for the advice.
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Originally Posted by LostInSp_ce
Very nice Mick. Are you shooting with a 70-200? If so, I find the sweet spot to be f4, but you may get some spikes from the blades on brighter stars which may or may not bother you.
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Thanks LIS, this is a compact camera with a fixed 24-70mm zoom lens. Aperture spikes don't bother me, in fact I quite like the effect they create on bright stars.
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Originally Posted by skysurfer
Nice pics !
I have the RX100M6 and have similar results, despite being dimmer (f/2.8-4.5 instead of f/2.0-2.8). It is an amazing camera and image quality is better that Powershot G7Xii.
Do you shoot RAW (ARW) ?
How did you handle light pollution by Melbourne and the Moon ?
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Thanks Skysurfer, so you are fully aware of how fine these cameras are and you own a much newer version of the Sony RX M series. I think they're up to version 7 now but I reckon yours will sport a lot more features than my M3. The newer versions are a bit pricey for me so I chose the best I could afford and that turned out to be the M3. These were shot in RAW from a location on the fringe of Melbourne so there was reduced light pollution and the moon had not breached the horizon before I ended the exposure session.