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Started by mogan, 09/14/2011 06:47AM
Posted 09/14/2011 06:47AM Opening Post
This technology looks interesting... any experience here?

http://www.zacuto.com/zfinderevf

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Canon 600mm L/4.0
Canon 1dMk4
Canon 1dsMk2
Canon 1v (35mm film)
AND A TON OF OTHER PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT
AP Mach1 (on order)
MV AGUSTA f4
'00 Lafite Rothschild
Posted 09/14/2011 12:54PM #1
David,

I understood you were interested in going into astroimaging. If so, you will probably use a laptop computer as your "viewfinder." When it comes to focusing, framing, and such, the large screen helps. You will at times want to take a four or five second exposure, stretch the data, and see how the picture looks before you begin your imaging run. It is hard to do that with a fancy viewfinder alone. Then, when you are all set up and ready to go, you will probably want to acquire your images software that takes a series of exposures and stores them on the computer. This means you will want to have a computer with your imaging stuff anyway.

Alex