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Old 19-06-2010, 11:55 AM
bloodhound31
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Originally Posted by acropolite View Post
Baz I don't think you will achive your stated goal, IMO the 5DII simply isn't sensitive enough to produce short exposures of the night sky without a significant tradeoff between noise and trailing.

....... long tracked exposures will produce the results you're after, ......... you may be better off investing in some lightweight and portable tracking equipment.
Tracking is no good for me.

My goal is to do time-lapses of much wider views of the milky way WITH various exotic horizons. No good doing longer tracking there or you get blurred foregrounds. 30 seconds is nominal with my current 18mm F3.5, but I could capture much more light in the same or even a shorter exposure, WITHOUT star tails or motion blur on the horizon.

As I said before, there is a middle ground somewhere and I HATE the fisheye effect.
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