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 #1915  8 Nov 2012 at 3.00pm | |   |
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To all fans of the technical side of photography.
To prevent threads cropping up left right and center across many boards, please use this thread to ask techie questions, get techie answers and show off your techie skills.
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#1000 15 Dec 2008 at 4.44pm | | |
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#2585 18 Apr 2021 at 2.24pm | | |
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when doing self takes of fish. I set my camera to take 100s of shots about 3 seconds apart. i often forget to turn it off....
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#2584 10 Apr 2021 at 8.29am | | |
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In reply to Post #2583
Another related question, what do you guys see as minimum requirements for an editing laptop?
I bought my daughter a 2 in 1 jobbie, I put photoshop on it as she's using it a lot for coursework, so much faster than my laptop and the touchscreen with a digital pen is brilliant! So much better than my wacom tablet.
But what spec would I need, I'm not a big photoshop user, but I have been playing with focus stacks, and 8 images is about the max currently for this, also the same using deepskystacker but I do want something that would cope with a lot more images without taking a week. I think 32 images + calibration frames would be about the sweet spot.
Is it unrealistic to think I can do this with a laptop?
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#2583 28 Mar 2021 at 8.34pm | | |
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Anyone got any experience with astro tracking mounts?
I've been trying to get some shots of various deep sky objects with my 75mm 1.8 but with 3.5 sec exposures it's a lot of work stacking loads of exposures and results are still pretty meh, a stack of 8 images of andromeda is the best I've got so far but it's still grainy, I reckon I'd need 32 exposures to get anything decent
Ideally I'd like something small and fairly cheap so I can take it fishing for some wide field milky way shots, but I would like one up to tracking for 30 sec exposures with the 150mm equivalent lens
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#2582 11 Feb 2021 at 7.31pm | | |
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#2581 16 Oct 2020 at 10.33am | | |
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In reply to Post #2580
Annoying isn't it 
I was watching a carp you tube vid the other day, reminded me of picking up the phone when someone was on the Internet in the early nineties with the focus motor jitters and clicky aperture stepping 
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#2580 16 Oct 2020 at 10.03am | | |
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In reply to Post #2579
Thanks duggs, I've got a shotgun mic that fits into the flash housing but yes as you say you can hear the motor!
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#2579 16 Oct 2020 at 8.31am | | |
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In reply to Post #2578
I can't really help with canon lenses but when video is involved you have to look out for noisey motors. Some of my lenses I can only use for video if I can use a lav mic, or a shotgun mic on an extension lead away from the camera. You'll do well to search for video specific reviews of any lens you consider
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#2578 15 Oct 2020 at 2.13pm | | |
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In reply to Post #1915
Hi, I am looking for some advice based on experience and knowledge of what Lens to upgrade too.
I have a Canon 80D and have been using a EFS 18-135mm USM lens, but wanted to get a better zoom, possibly up to 300mm.
Can anyone recommend a high quality lens (for photography and video too)?
Many thanks.
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#2577 12 Sept 2020 at 10.42am | | |
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In reply to Post #2564
This is so true.
I take pics in high q jpeg and raw with a 36mp camera. Each file is 40 times the size of an old 3.5 floppy disk. And yet I don't delete anything.
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#2576 24 Aug 2020 at 5.39pm | | |
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For anyone who wants to compare the size of cameras, this site gives actual sizes so you can see for yourself before you buy.
https://camerasize.com/compact/
And Camera price buster, fantastic site.
https://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/
And the used lens site i put here a while ago.
https://usedlens.co.uk/
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#2575 22 Aug 2020 at 7.56pm | | |
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Bought the big camera fishing hoping to get some shots of the hobby/s I saw snatching dragonflies last week, haven seen a glimpse of them this week but I did test the stabilisation last night.
8 seconds handheld was easy, 15 seconds was possible leant against a tree at 12mm (24mm equivalent) 
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#2574 22 Aug 2020 at 7.47pm | | |
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In reply to Post #2573
here I think
I've never tried it myself
You can get a lot of camera for £500
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#2573 22 Aug 2020 at 7.41pm | | |
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In reply to Post #2572
Dont suppose you have links please. Its an old
Camera so not too fussed if it bricks
Cheers 👍👍
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