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Originally Posted by scott2
Hi everyone,
I've been wanting to get into this for awhile and figured I should start cheap to make sure it's something I'll be into. I'm leaning more toward trying out landscape/DSOs.
Hoping to confirm what I'm looking for sounds good, budget is $500 and I'm starting with nothing:
DSLR: Canon 700D (alternatives?)
Lens: 18-55mm kit lens
Tripod: Not really sure, any recs?
Anything else I should be keeping an eye out for?
If I get a 700D body-only, are there other lenses I should consider?
I do have a SkyWatcher Heritage 130p telescope, although I'm guessing there's not much I can do with that + a DSLR?
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The older Canon's are all very noisy. The 700D is one of the noisiest of the Canon APSC's.
Practically anything without a Canon badge on it will be much better for nightscape type photography - Sony, Nikon, Pentax all have Sony sensors. Sony have been making full frame for quite a while but the Alpha 5000 and 6000 series are APSc and will have half the noise of the 700D. Some of the Sony camera's had a problems with noise reduction called star eating where the camera treated images of stars as noise and deleted them. They fixed this problem in firmware. I don't know if any older model cameras don't have the firmware fix.
Any of these cameras, whichever are in your budget, will be about half the noise of the Canon 700D :-
Nikon D3200, D3300, D3400, D5100, D5200, D5300, D5500, D5600, D7000, D7100, D7200, D7500
Pentax K01, K5, K5ii, K5iiS, K3
All of the above are APSC cameras because you asked about an APSC camera. if you can afford a second hand full frame camera, performance increases substantially.
Cheers
Joe