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Originally Posted by janoskiss
There are just so many types of lenses mounts and cameras it's mindboggling.
How about Pentax? I'm reading that their DSLRs take many of their old film camera lenses as well as some 3rd party lenses...  |
Steve
I purchased the Pentax *ist DS DSLR a couple of years ago as I had a swag of old K mount lenses, going back to 1976 and they work in manual mode. I love Pentax gear but if you are seriously going to get into DSLR astrophotography, you should buy Canon of Nikon.
Most of the 3rd party accessories and software for DSLR astrophotography provide functionality for Canon and Nikon models, NONE for Pentax.
If you want to operate your camera from a PC, focus via the PC, expose several frames at intervals from a PC, etc. then applications like DSLRfocus and ImagesPlus all cater for Canon and Nikon gear.
I am occasionally frustrated by this lack of support and restricted mode of operation. Using Pentax Remote Assistant SW I can program up to 99 x 30 sec exposures via the Notebook, but otherwise software support is very, very limited.
Cheers
Dennis