I dig it butch.

As seen on TV1 news tonight.

Was a beautiful morning for a ride. About 50km was on wet roads, but no rain where I was riding, very weird.

^ wow beautiful! Nice waves too.


This shot on a canon g16..



Gibraltar Rock nightscape by robjdickinson, on Flickr

Is that a single shot or a bunch stacked?

What settings?

I've messed about with a mates d5mk3 doing some dark sky stuff, and have been wondering if any of the compact (ish) stuff would take an ok dark sky shot so I can carry it tramping or bike packing and it not be 1, stupidly heavy 2, horribly fragile.

its a stitch of 8 shots. Looks oK but would only print a fraction of the size a similar 5d2 shot would

Interesting. How big do you think it would print? A3 or A4?

Might see if I can find someone with one that I can try out. I end up in some cool places with some really nice dark skys from time to time, I just don't want to carry a few kgs of expensive camera gear the whole time. Not sure how many over the bars crashes I'd want to have with a D5 on my back.....

I think you would get an A3 from it, will do some trial prints sometime.

Slim wrote:I've messed about with a mates d5mk3 doing some dark sky stuff, and have been wondering if any of the compact (ish) stuff would take an ok dark sky shot so I can carry it tramping or bike packing and it not be 1, stupidly heavy 2, horribly fragile.

suitably compact tripod so you can run a nice long exposure should do it - I use gorillapods myself

after that comes down to good sensor/nice optics - lots of compacts/mirrorless around now (sony rx100-II springs to mind - 1" sensor and better low light sensitivity than the mk.1 - reasonable f1.8 lens).

Once you get up into interchangable lens stuff not so small/compact any more (had a look at a nex6 with the 18-55 at the weekend - nice but not really somethign I'd want to carry on the bike, ok for tramping - body was a nice size but lens doubles size/weight).

Went out to last night to try for some star pics but it clouded over on me

That's pretty cool ryda.

Thanks Tugboat

came across this the other day for anyone in welly area that interested
http://www.carterobservatory.org/light- ... ompetition

sorry time is running out thou

The more I think about it the more I just want to get a fuji x100s...

Bigfoot wrote:The more I think about it the more I just want to get a fuji x100s...

I LOVE my X100. Its an awesome camera.

Strongly considering the x100 to save a few hundy as well - good to know theliveo! Seems like the best little urban/travel camera around right now... plus, so so sexy.

Had a play with one of these over the weekend



Rather liked it... the clouds didn't play thier part so I couldn't get the pic I was after but it was nice to get this type of pic with out having to blend multi pics together