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Question...why do you use 50mm lens for these shots? Surely that just means cropping?
It's that or the Nikkor D 20mm f2.8 but that was on the D200, perhaps, looking back I should have had the 20mm on the D300... I wanted a wider view to stand a chance of catching a meteor, they can occur anywhere in the sky, in fact, apparently the radiant point isn't the best place to point the camera. I just kept pointing the cameras at the clearest area of the sky.
I didn't want to use the zooms because they are so slow and would need to be stopped down a bit to avoid CA.
To use the 180 or 300 would reduce the odds of capturing a meteor to almost zero. A fisheye would be better but everything would be tiny, any meteor would be so small it would be difficult to spot them.
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Robert.