While my LX was busy taking shots of IC 5150 last night I spent the whole night playing with my portable setup in preparation of an upcoming astro camp this coming weekend.
I was testing out my partners Canon 100-400 F/4-5.6 IS L lens, to see if it would be suitable for astronomy and allow me to easily guide through the Megrez while imaging through the lens. The lens seems to have horrible distortions of stars until it's inperfect focus, then it is excellent, probably better than my 70-200 F/4 L.
This is the only barely nice looking image I ended up with from the night:
Small Magellanic Cloud
Full image is about 1mb.
I'm still disapointed with what my 350D gives me as compared to Provia 400F used to give me. Missing out on all that red really hurts the images. So as I guess I should expect, this image looks very much like a DSLR shot, from an unmodified camera.
If I try the SMC next weekend it'll probably turn out better because here I am in light pollution so am missing some contrast to start with.
Roger.