On 10/24/2011 1:47 PM, Toine wrote:
I should receive my copy tomorrow, your posts made the 5 week wait for
the postman unbearable.
You're welcome.
Forecast is cloudy and rainy for the next
week...
I got mine just before the full moon, and it was a couple of weeks
before I had clear and moonless skies.
My biggest tripod should point the contraption rock solid to
the (cloudy) sky...
One aid for it that I want to make is a way of mounting my green laser
to my camera, to get some sort of visual aid to where I'm pointing it.
I do have a red-dot sight that mounts to my hot shoe, and that does help
a little.
The zoom on the bigma also helped.
Toine
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Larry Colen<[email protected]> wrote:
Once I've fully figured things out, I should probably right a complete review
of it. But, here are a few more items that I've noticed:
1) The blue LED on the back is way too bright, and shines in your eye when
you're trying to find the viewfinder at night. Stupid, stupid stupid, they
should have pointed it up rather than back. At the very least they could use
camera settings to note whether to shine it bright or dim. I put a little blue
tape over it, which helps.
2) Can't set the focal length for shake reduction high enough for really long
lenses. With normal shake reduction this isn't a huge issue.
3) It works well, but not perfectly. I don't know whether it is from not
matching the focal length perfectly, or the sensor only operating linearly and
not rotating. It will be interesting to see how well Adobe anti-smear software
works at correcting that. If it's just a question of not setting things
properly, they could do a trick like with white balance, where they look at the
shot, detect the length and direction of the trails, and adjust things
accordingly.
4) The user interface sucks. I blew too many shots because when taking a
second shot I pressed the shutter, rather than pressing OK to take a picture,
then pressing the shutter. If you want to look at a photo, you've got to go
through a dozen button presses to get back to the take a picture with
astrotracer screen. Likewise if you want to set something, like if you are
bracketing a shot and want to change ISO.
5) Jupiter is bright enough to use for setting focus.
6) If I were to do a lot more of this I would need a seriously expensive tripod
head.
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