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Eric wrote:
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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.
Ah yes, silly me....was forgetting this was for meteor capture, and thinking just star shots.
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Eric