Choosing still cameras for dual use

"Mutz" == Mutz writes:

Mutz On Sun, 15 May 2005 22:52:18 GMT, Shankar Bhattacharyya
Mutz wrote:

However, as a fellow with a fair bit of moderately expensive
Nikon glass, I am interested in whether the Nikon D-70 is capable
of decent astrophotography. At least a few people must have tried
it already.

Mutz A guy I know says that due to the internal post processing the
Mutz D70 does he has to turn his off immediately after each
Mutz exposure, which is a pain in the you know what.

You might find this interesting and relevant

http://www.astrosurf.org/buil/d70v10d/eval.htm

roland
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Roland Roberts wrote in
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"Mutz" == Mutz writes:

Mutz On Sun, 15 May 2005 22:52:18 GMT, Shankar Bhattacharyya

A guy I know says that due to the internal post
processing the D70 does he has to turn his off
immediately after each exposure, which is a
pain in the you know what.

You might find this interesting and relevant

http://www.astrosurf.org/buil/d70v10d/eval.htm

Stefan Lilge suggested that as well. I looked at it and found it
informative. It strongly suggests that the Nikon D70 is too much of a
pain to use for this purpose to be worth the trouble. That is a silly
design choice for a camera manufacturer to make. I am not suggesting
that Nikon should have taken astrophotography into account. However,
the idea of not allowing for a true raw file from what is not a low-
end camera is really silly. I asked Nikon about the suitability of
their cameras for astrophotography, as compared the Canons and I got a
response which basically said they have bulb settings and ISO 1600
settings and if I had more questions I should follow up with those. I
have not done that yet. I will follow up with that if this idea begins
to look faintly reasonable at some point. Nikon did tell me what
remote release options were available, which is something I would want
to know anyway.

Principally, at the moment, I am making a terrestrial photography
choice but I had planned to take the astrophotography issues into
account. This makes it a bit more complicated.

- Shankar

"sb" == Shankar Bhattacharyya writes:

sb Roland Roberts wrote in
sb :

"Mutz" == Mutz writes:

Mutz On Sun, 15 May 2005 22:52:18 GMT, Shankar Bhattacharyya

A guy I know says that due to the internal post processing the
D70 does he has to turn his off immediately after each exposure,
which is a pain in the you know what.

You might find this interesting and relevant

http://www.astrosurf.org/buil/d70v10d/eval.htm

[...]

sb Principally, at the moment, I am making a terrestrial
sb photography choice but I had planned to take the
sb astrophotography issues into account. This makes it a bit more
sb complicated.

You might also be interested in this as well. Jerry Lodriguss is a
professional photographer and astrophotographer.

http://www.astropix.com/HTML/M_DAP/M150/M150.HTM

I've just placed an order with Hutech for a modified Canon 350D. The
cameras are apparently difficult to get right now, so there is a 2-month
wait (Hutech has get the camera, then mod it and they're back
ordered---last I checked, even B&H was back-ordered for a stock 350D).

regards,

roland
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