[naskies (Dave)]

Originally Posted by lacad01

That is a super shot, nice work

Thanks Adam, appreciated!

Originally Posted by iceman

Beautiful, nicely done Dave.

Thanks Mike!

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Great shot.

How'd you get away with ISO12800? There is minimal noise in the image.

Thanks Greg. I used the in-camera noise reduction again... seems to work quite well on the 5DmkII. I turned off *all* sharpening during RAW processing (i.e. the one that's designed to counter-act the effect of the anti-alias filter), as it usually sharpens the noise instead.

I also avoid stretching the histogram / using curves with ISO >= 6400 as it brings out the fixed pattern noise quite quickly.

Originally Posted by Octane

Nice one, Dave!

I'm thinking of getting that 14mm lens.

How do you find edge performance? I know it's rectinlinear, but, still, what's your experience with it?

The centre is excellent but the edges are definitely soft and heavily vignetted, i.e. enough that I usually work it into the composition rather than try to fix in post.

I did briefly play around with another IIS member's Nikon 14-24 mm and the corners on the Nikon did seem much sharper on it.

The overall performance of the 14L is excellent though - it's part of my magic imaging kit with the 35L, 85L, 135L, etc.

Originally Posted by Larryp

Very nice!

Thanks Laurie!

Originally Posted by RickS

Nice colours, Dave!

Thanks Rick!

Originally Posted by stardust steve

You have done well. I see that you have got those large colourful stars to stand out, something that I have seen in the good nights cape images I have been following.

Thanks Steve! High cloud seems to do the trick, but really bright objects like Jupiter and Sirius have a habit of becoming comically large. I'm told a soft diffusion filter or fog/dew on the lens does a great job of it too.