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Sony A6000 and Celestron C5 (1 Viewer)

stefano.sec

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after long time using Kowa prominar, I decided to make some shots with the Celestron C5. Not so easy to do because the equivalent focal on APS-c is 1875mm (1250x1.5), tripod must be really good and better to use wi-fi remote, but the "focus peaking" and zoom for manual focus permits to obtain good shots (if the subject gives time ;) ).
Some pictures are posted on my blog, here a crop and post production of a sparrow's picture at an estimated distance of 15 meters. I hope you like it.
Stefano
 

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I'm sorry I'm still learning english language...do you mean all stuff? I have here some pics of my celestron and Canon550D, where I show some ways to take pics with it, but now I just use Sony a6000 in prime focus.
 
thanks for the shots stefano -your english seems very good

the weight of the sony is light compared to mirror d-slr's. which copany t-adapter do you use?

thankyou
 
the weight is not so different 2,8Kg vs 3kg. Now I have a T2-Canon adapter because I have already Canon-Emount too. Maybe I can save weight and fix it better if I take T2-Emount adapter. For the focusing, I use zoom 11.7x (there is also 5.9x) to focus the subject, and there is a red color focus peaking too to confirm (it depends by the light). What I can see on display, it is repeated into the ocular. I never compared that system to the digiscoping one, but I think if I compare the same focal, here I have better quality because there is no only one lens between mirror and sensor. Sharpness is not excellent for sure, but post production helps. Sorry for the picture quality, bye
 

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