-
6 votes
-
The "Devil's Horns"
6 votes -
Photographer documents a friendship between a grey wolf and a brown bear
8 votes -
Purchasing an astrophotography mount
I do some astrophotography for fun in my spare time. I'd like to get into doing deep sky photography. In order to do that, I need a moving mount that can keep the camera aligned with the stars for...
I do some astrophotography for fun in my spare time. I'd like to get into doing deep sky photography. In order to do that, I need a moving mount that can keep the camera aligned with the stars for minutes to hours at a time. I'll be using (at least initially) a Canon 7D (original version) with Canon lenses rather than a telescope. I currently have a 200mm lens with 2x extender, which makes it 600mm equivalent on that body.
I'd like to know if others here have ever done this and what type of hardware they've used for the motor and mount? Prices seem to be all over the place and options vary greatly on different devices. For example, I see the following:
Sky-watcher EQM-35 - $623.00US - Seems pretty full-featured for the price, as it includes tripod, motorized mount, alignment scope, and database of astronomical objects.
Celestron Advanced VX Computerized Mount - $899.00US - Seems very similar to the above, but does not include a scope, but is ~$250 more
Orion AstroView EQ Mount & EQ-3M Motor Drive Kit - $269.99US - Like the first one, but without the scope and holds less weight, and no database of objects to look atI get the difference in price between the first and last, but not the middle one.
In any event, curious if anyone has used any of the above or any others and what their thoughts are on the quality of different brands, and anything I should be looking for or avoiding.
7 votes -
Fotografiska breathes life into historic New York landmark – Swedish photography museum's first global outpost is taking shape in the former Church Missions House
5 votes -
SpaceX has quietly—and retroactively—relicensed its photos out of the public domain
14 votes -
A detailed walkthrough of the process to determine the location shown in photographs released by Europol to help investigate child sexual abuse
14 votes -
Quantum droplets win the 2019 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition
9 votes -
2019 Hubble Space Telescope Advent calendar
5 votes -
Some squirrel photography
8 votes -
The rise of 'facadism' in London
13 votes -
Inside the iPhone 11 Camera, Part 1: A completely new camera
5 votes -
Beautiful tomboys of the 1930s
15 votes -
A photographer at the ends of the Earth - Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to document the world’s remotest places
7 votes -
See nature reclaim these abandoned places
3 votes -
Cool Pics -- The fifty finalists in the 2019 Agora photo awards
7 votes -
Halide 1.14: Updates for iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro
3 votes -
iphone 11 pro camera review: china
7 votes -
A photo exhibition shows what parenting might be like if fathers took six months of parental leave
16 votes -
What online services do you use to host and share photos?
Services like Facebook, Instagram, Google Photos, iCloud Photo Sharing, Flickr, SmugMug, 500px, and more are available for hosting and sharing photos online. I'm curious what service, or set of...
Services like Facebook, Instagram, Google Photos, iCloud Photo Sharing, Flickr, SmugMug, 500px, and more are available for hosting and sharing photos online. I'm curious what service, or set of services, you you use and how you decided. Do you cross post between them, and if so what strategy do you use?
I'm currently spread a bit and without much cross-posting between Facebook, Instagram, and Flickr. Not a strong conscious decision, though I've been wanting to do a bit more photography and would like to figure out a better strategy.
I think some key points to consider are cost (free vs pro, ease of upgrade/downgrade), storage space and restrictions (total space, max individual size, filetypes, enforced resizing/compression), ease and control of sharing publicly or privately, network audience and reach, and creative rights (who owns what rights on the content)
This Terms of Service; Didn't Read site can be helpful for at least determining what the general rights on these services are with some broad judgement.
14 votes -
What does your photography setup look like?
I've been trying to get back into photography and love seeing what other photographers are using. My daily driver is a Nikon D5600 with the kit 18-55mm lens, as well as a 70-300mm lens. Nothing to...
I've been trying to get back into photography and love seeing what other photographers are using.
My daily driver is a Nikon D5600 with the kit 18-55mm lens, as well as a 70-300mm lens. Nothing to spectacular, but it gets the job done. I'm just a hobbyist, so I don't have any real professional-grade equipment, but hopefully with time I'll get some more stuff as I get better with what I already have.
What are you using?
10 votes -
How the Daguerreotype started a Victorian black market for pornography in London
7 votes -
Why did Ai Weiwei break this million-dollar vase?
9 votes -
Soviet living: a gallery of 272 photos of ordinary life in the Soviet Union
28 votes -
This US heartland has been flooded for five months. Does anyone care?
10 votes -
How scientists colorize photos of space
7 votes -
The helicopter team that films the Tour de France
8 votes -
Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop being so damn selfish and disrespectful
12 votes -
Shooting a video with a World War I lens (100 years old)
3 votes -
The people who develop the long-lost camera films of strangers
9 votes -
The unreasonably difficult photo contest
16 votes -
Winners of the 2019 Audubon Photography Awards
7 votes -
Sony a7R IV: First Impressions and real-world photos
6 votes -
A photographer recently captured a wild video of two brown bears fighting at a forest in Finland
9 votes -
A photographic immersion in "The Island of the Colorblind"
6 votes -
On the indignity of crisis photos
5 votes -
How to shoot awesome fireworks photos
4 votes -
A total solar eclipse in an astronomer's paradise
3 votes -
A rather sensual macro shot i took of my ex girlsfriend's belly button in 2004
11 votes -
My best night-time photo from Prague: City Ducks
9 votes -
Queer parenting: The beauty of the sometimes less-visible modern family
5 votes -
Father-daughter border drowning highlights migrants' perils
14 votes -
What's the best advice you've been given regarding photography?
I'm interested in what you all have heard over the years or have learned on your own, that has stuck with you and made you a better photographer
16 votes -
Joel Sartore, an acclaimed National Geographic photographer, is a man on a mission. He's trying to photograph every species, every animal, bird, fish, reptile and insect, in captivity.
7 votes -
The powerful faces of women who faced danger
7 votes -
Thirty years after Tiananmen protests, 'the fight is still going on for China'
7 votes -
Food Photographer of the Year 2019: "Cauldron Noodles" takes top prize
9 votes -
Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole? What are we even looking at?
11 votes -
Black hole picture captured for first time in space ‘breakthrough’
63 votes -
Put artificial intelligence to work on your photos | No Sweat Tech
3 votes