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Originally Posted by ourkind
Nice work Greg, the 2nd image does it for me, the milky way looks beautiful.
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Thanks Carlos. I have a pretty time lapse of the same view where the air glow shifts around and the clouds shoot past and they add interest.
You can get a time lapse app for $10 from the Sony shop which is one reason I got the Nex 6. Its fiddly and took a while to understand but once you set it up you it keeps the last settings. It works quite nicely too.
The Nex 6 is a good camera for astrophotography and a cheaper alternative to the full frame cameras (body only is about $815 on ebay and there are lots of cheap high qualty legacy lenses that work well on it). But APSc is quite a bit smaller than full frame and I see that in the images. There is a lack of tolerance to processing compared to similar exposures on my Nikon D800E. It won't take much processing.
Ideal strategy would be to do 3 or 5 minute shots on a Polarie to get the signal up and overcome that weakness. Or use a Metabones speed booster to narrow the full frame advantage. But now you are back to close to Canon 6D or Nikon D600 prices.
Greg.