(April 25, 2012 at 9:50 am)Chuff Wrote:(April 25, 2012 at 8:49 am)Poetess Wrote: Sadly, I just have a Canon SD780.Nothing wrong with a compact and it's obviously served you well. It simply isnt practical to carry an SLR everywhere
(April 25, 2012 at 8:49 am)Poetess Wrote: I have my eye on a Canon RebelThe Rebel (I think) is called a 1000D here, which I believe is almost the same camera as mine just with a slightly lower Megapixel count. Ace camera.
(April 25, 2012 at 9:34 am)orogenicman Wrote: I have a Hutech modified Canon T1i. It is set up for astrophotography, but can be used for regular photography using a UV-IR cut filter and a custom white balance.
And I presume a very smart telescope too Orogenicman - Very nice indeed, have you managed any snaps of jupiter or saturn? I'd be keen to see any more pics that you have, the one above is wonderful
Thanks. I don't do planetary stuff (with the exception of the Moon), just deep sky. I have posted others in the physical science forum on ocassion.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
