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Astroscope + DSLR = Gallery! (1 Viewer)
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JGobeil
Nature Photographer
Nice !
DanC.Licks
AKA Daniel Bradley
That is nice, Tord. The 620 is no slouch of a camera. Said it many times. Whenever the new body comes out, my E-30 will go, but I will for sure keep my 620.
pinkster2008
Member
American Goldfinch
Took these pictures at the local park, after the weather change to warmer these birds start to show up.
Set up
SW89 ED + 1.7 TN+ extension tubes
ISO400, 1/400
50% crop
Enjoy
Took these pictures at the local park, after the weather change to warmer these birds start to show up.
Set up
SW89 ED + 1.7 TN+ extension tubes
ISO400, 1/400
50% crop
Enjoy
DanC.Licks
AKA Daniel Bradley
Nice shots.
Doesn't look anything like "our" Goldfinches.
Doesn't look anything like "our" Goldfinches.
pinkster2008
Member
@Tord: that grebe is lokking very good with all those dropplets popping out, like in 3D
@pinkster: Great work on that goldfinch!
Thank you very much for your kind words.
FernandoBatista
Well-known member
awesome, Fernando!
Would like to see Remiz pendulinus, someday! Great capture.
JGobeil
Nature Photographer
You guys are pushing the limits of digiscoping ! Great work.
Paul Corfield
Well-known member
Nice photos everyone.
Fernando, what do you think of the A65? Now that the shutter has gone on my Canon 450D I had A65 on my list as a possible replacement.
Cheers,
Paul.
Fernando, what do you think of the A65? Now that the shutter has gone on my Canon 450D I had A65 on my list as a possible replacement.
Cheers,
Paul.
FernandoBatista
Well-known member
At this point I would say it’s the best digiscoping camera in the market (either this or the A77 depending on your needs), At least for me.
That said, I still have some mixed feelings about it, it’s really good in some respects, but could be quite better on others.
The upsides:
I bought it for one reason mainly, focus peaking. It’s a remarkable function, it’s the easiest way to focus on steady subjects I’ve ever used, period. Seeing what is in focus couldn’t be easier than this.
Than there’s that amazing EVF, it’s huge, it shows exactly what your picture is going to look like, it’s very sharp and clear, even in lower lights. Much better than the G5 EVF I had previously.
Still, I added a 1.35x magnifier to it, now it’s like focusing on my living room TV
. Being used to the 450 OVF you’re going to love the view from this, also you’ll see the true DOF you’re getting, I found that very helpful in focusing too.
The steady shot, you have to chip your scope to take advantage from it, but it works quite well, especially in video mode.
Speed, this camera is fast, really fast. 3.5fps with live view, that’s about average for an EVF camera. But you have the option of 10fps too, and it writes those shots to the card very fast for a camera at this level.
Of course at 10 fps it no longer gives us live view, but it’s slide show effect is very fast, again much faster than the G5 I had. Overall it just feels very snappy.
Resolution, I’ve never seen so many feathers on a bird shot until I bought this, the detail is incredible. On the other hand, missfocus and shakiness now becomes quite obvious.
Silence while working, this is a feature I start valuing a lot lately, and this camera doesn’t disappoint, is not completely silent like the G5 but is very discrete, and using the front curtain option even more so. I don’t think I ever had a bird flying away from the shutter with the A65, this was a real problem in some locations with the D90.
Now for the downsides:
ISOs are a bit strange on this camera, when I first view the files from the camera I found them very noisy indeed. But comparing side by side to my D90, showed me that the ISOs from the A65 are very different than the ISOs from the D90. Basically, shooting the same scene with both I had to increase the ISO on the D90 by almost 2/3 of a stop to get the same shutter speed of the A65 and the same histogram.
Now I find myself shooting a lot at ISO 100 and 200 a lot, while on the D90 I rarely dropped from 400.
I don’t know if it’s just my camera, but mine is definitely more sensitive for the same ISOs than the D90 was.
Trap focus, you don’t use it, but is something I loved on my D90. And the trap focus on the A65 just doesn’t work reliably. Still I can’t complain about it because most other newer cameras I tried don’t work as well as the D90, that goes for the D7000 and D300 too.
Focus peaking, is really good… but could be even better. And this is the point that’s going to make me change this camera sooner than I though.
Sony’s peaking uses a type of CDAF detection, it reads only vertical structures. With that it’s sensitivity is less than optimal. And in some cases it doesn’t even show enough peaking.
To work around it, I have to increase the effect to mid or high, the problem with this is the shown peaking is more than the image DOF, so precision is lost.
Also, detecting only vertical structures causes peaking effect to disappear when panning horizontally, witch is an obvious problem for BIFs.
I hope sony improves this at some point, for example a focus peaking like Fuji is using now seems to be best. From the videos I’ve seen on Fuji it’s peaking seems to detect vertical and horizontal features and detects far more detail than sony’s.
JMHO on the camera, I hope it helps on your decision
Tord
Well-known member
Thanks all for feedback and nice words.
Picking up some more photos from the photo session last weekend. Here is a portrait of the other family member that showed up for a few seconds followed by a decent record shot from a brief and sudden display behavior.
/Tord
Picking up some more photos from the photo session last weekend. Here is a portrait of the other family member that showed up for a few seconds followed by a decent record shot from a brief and sudden display behavior.
/Tord
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Paul Corfield
Well-known member
Thanks Fernando for taking the time to write that review, that will be a great help indeed.
Cheers,
Paul.
Cheers,
Paul.
pinkster2008
Member
Hi Tord, I took these pictures by my Nikon D600 set at full frame.
Great variety - what's the second one? Love that bird
Do the d600 vignette on your scope?
