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RJD · *by **RJD** on Thu 11/Sep/14 9:58am*

Conners wrote:
RJD wrote:Milford by robjdickinson, on Flickr

Just read your workflow on FB - I had no idea that you shot these (or this one at least) with a 50mm. I've been wondering for a while (but never getting around to trying) if that would be possible. Given that my only non kit lens is a 50mm 1.8, I am tempted to try some landscape pano tinkering

I am on a FF body so more like a 30-35mm on a crop.

I know a lot of very good pano shooters who all almost exclusively use 50mm lenses (actually tilt shift ones but thats just to make things easy).

With a crop body your just going to need more frames is all. Night stuff is tricky to do without the right pano head/gear

I often shoot with a 24mm , or 14mm, but doing most of my recent astro with the 50, im surprised how well its working! Tempted to upgrade the sigma to the new art.

lubie · *by **lubie** on Thu 11/Sep/14 10:07am*

I've shifted offices recently - Everyone loves your Lizard Eye, Rob :love:

RJD · *by **RJD** on Thu 11/Sep/14 11:24am*

glad they like it!

Conners · *by **Conners** on Fri 12/Sep/14 9:46pm*

RJD wrote:
I am on a FF body so more like a 30-35mm on a crop.

Ah yes, good point. Hadn't factored that in.

RJD wrote:With a crop body your just going to need more frames is all. Night stuff is tricky to do without the right pano head/gear

Yeah will have a it of a play around with some daylight panos to see how I go.

The brief play I did have with stars a couple of years back from memory resulted in much difficulty focussing - even when zoomed 10x on live view. My 50mm is the newer model Canon which has a seemingly tiny (and coarse) manual focus ring. Most likely user error/fat fingers though. :blush:

RJD · *by **RJD** on Fri 12/Sep/14 10:44pm*

Nope thats a pig to manual focus really.

ryda · *by **ryda** on Sun 14/Sep/14 9:16pm*

I find my canon lenses' a PITA to focus for night stuff as you can go beyond infinity :paranoid:

EoinC · *by **EoinC** on Sun 14/Sep/14 9:29pm*

Camranger works well for manual focusing for Canons. The iPad image gets very grainy on long exposures, but is still good for picking out the sweetspot of focus. It's chur-as with a TS and old eyes.

RJD · *by **RJD** on Mon 15/Sep/14 11:35am*

ryda wrote:I find my canon lenses' a PITA to focus for night stuff as you can go beyond infinity

Thats mostly down to them being autofocus, but even manual focus lenses go past infinity, have to allow some adjustment due to temperature changes etc. Just use live view 10* on a bright star or something

UK_Exile · *by **UK_Exile** on Mon 15/Sep/14 1:09pm*

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ryda · *by **ryda** on Mon 15/Sep/14 3:10pm*

RJD wrote:
ryda wrote:I find my canon lenses' a PITA to focus for night stuff as you can go beyond infinity

Thats mostly down to them being autofocus, but even manual focus lenses go past infinity, have to allow some adjustment due to temperature changes etc. Just use live view 10* on a bright star or something

oh right, my Tokina lens stops at infinity maybe that is a sign of it being a lesser quality

RJD · *by **RJD** on Mon 15/Sep/14 3:13pm*

Hmm odd. guess it depends on the lens, how autofocus works is the camera racks the lens back and forward to detect in phase light so needs to go past infinity to get back to it.. Though I guess with a different design it doesnt need to. My tilt shift actually focuses quite far past infinity.. neat little trick..

RugbySucks · *by **RugbySucks** on Mon 15/Sep/14 4:08pm*

Conners · *by **Conners** on Mon 15/Sep/14 4:15pm*

This is all good info - and answers my next 'is there an easy way to manual focus to infinity' question... :eh:

danose · *by **danose** on Mon 15/Sep/14 4:19pm*

UK_Exile wrote:Photo people, where's good place to buy Pelican boxes ? Wanting a small one for a PLB, keys, credit card. The shops in Chch all saying sorry no or very limited range as NZ importer is useless.

http://www.rubbermonkey.co.nz/Cases-Bag ... ases/Small

UK_Exile · *by **UK_Exile** on Mon 15/Sep/14 4:27pm*

danose wrote:
UK_Exile wrote:Photo people, where's good place to buy Pelican boxes ? Wanting a small one for a PLB, keys, credit card. The shops in Chch all saying sorry no or very limited range as NZ importer is useless.

http://www.rubbermonkey.co.nz/Cases-Bag ... ases/Small

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