"Canon Coolpix"?
Is there such a model?

I thought Coolpix was a trademark of Nikon, exclusive to them only?

The G5 has an exposure time of 15 seconds, max, I believe. A Nikon
Coolpix 4500, 5000 or 5700 can expose for up to 5 minutes with noise
cancellation built in. I owned a 5000 for a while and the Noise
Reduction worked wonderful at the 3-4 minute exposure periods, of the
images I was taking.

Here's M42, at 70 seconds, in the Nikon 5000, which I took last winter:
http://members.rogers.com/astronut/images/M42Comp.jpg

My personal homepage with other images:
http://members.rogers.com/astronut/


Cheers.


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"Ed Majden" wrote in message
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I'm thinking about buying a Canon G5 5-MPixel digital camera. Has
anyone tried to record stars using the time exposure feature in the
cameras
widest mode? If you have, please let me know how well this worked. A
Canon
Coolpix should work the same so if you tried this with a Nikon please
provide details.
Thanks:
Ed