Hi Rocket boy and others
Firstly I'd love to meet up and check out the different scopes - I have a wild instinct to go and lash out at Bintel but am resisting as much as I can until I am 100% sure. Kulnura is about 2hrs from me - I don't mind - do you know when the next meet is?
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So I have been talking to some guys on the cloudy nights forums in the meantime and am almost decided (I think!)
With my canon gear, my lenses are (I'm a wedding photog) ;
- 16-35/2.8
- 35/1.4
- 85/1.2
- 135/2
- 300/2.8
On the cloudy nights forums, they seem to be discouraging the use of a SCT due to the inherently long focal length/narrow field of view. However I would like the lx200 to just look through for funs sake, and for my wifes sake as although photography is my main interest I won't be doing it 100% of the time and she certainly won't be.
Heres the choices I seem to be with at the moment after talking to the cloudy nights guys ;
Firstly, they have all recommended a GEM which Bintel sell for $2399, the EQ6Pro. I think this is known as an atlas eq-g in the states.
Option 1 -
EQ6Pro + Meade 10" lx200r OTA with Canon DSLR piggybacked - this is my current favourite option as it's obviously a big contrast between the 2.
Option 2 -
EQ6Pro + Meade 10" lx200r OTA with Orion ED 80mm APO with Canon DSLR attacked to Orion. My concern with this is I don't think the Orion 80mm would be massively different to my existing canon lenses, I know it's double the focal length but it's also a low slower aperture wise, the slowest aperture on my camera lenses is f/2.8.
Option 3 -
Meade 8" LXD75 SN with Canon DSLR either piggybacked of attached directly to the scope depending on focal length requirements. The SN is much brighter than a lx200 - f/4 vs f/10.
As stated option 1 is my current fave though I'm happy to be talked out of it. The lxd75 has me intrigued though, being a brighter scope.
Any thoughts on this?
cheers