Selecting a New SetupPosted By Alex McConahay |
You already have two good answers.
And here is the point you don't want to hear---your professional photographer stuff is of good, but limited use. You are ahead of the rest of us in Photoshop, I am sure. And that is particularly true of the post-post processing parts (cleaning up, noise, and such). You have some to learn about stretching the data at the beginning. But, you will pick that up.
It is in acquisition that you will have the most to learn. Get the best mount you can find, as has been mentioned. And start with the widest Field of View (shortest focal length) to learn the tricks of alignment, guiding, etc. I would strongly suggest that you make no decisions at this point regarding a tube. Instead, buy the best mount you can afford (see the previous post) and stick your existing DSLR on it, with whatever camera lens you choose to use. The shorter the easier to learn, although 300-400 mm is well within reason with a quality mount.
Try that for six months while you are deciding what kind of things you want to take pictures of out in space. Get all your mount issues, software, guiding, and all that working automatically. Then it is time for longer focal length exposures.
Alex
And here is the point you don't want to hear---your professional photographer stuff is of good, but limited use. You are ahead of the rest of us in Photoshop, I am sure. And that is particularly true of the post-post processing parts (cleaning up, noise, and such). You have some to learn about stretching the data at the beginning. But, you will pick that up.
It is in acquisition that you will have the most to learn. Get the best mount you can find, as has been mentioned. And start with the widest Field of View (shortest focal length) to learn the tricks of alignment, guiding, etc. I would strongly suggest that you make no decisions at this point regarding a tube. Instead, buy the best mount you can afford (see the previous post) and stick your existing DSLR on it, with whatever camera lens you choose to use. The shorter the easier to learn, although 300-400 mm is well within reason with a quality mount.
Try that for six months while you are deciding what kind of things you want to take pictures of out in space. Get all your mount issues, software, guiding, and all that working automatically. Then it is time for longer focal length exposures.
Alex
