Simon21

To cpkuntz,Hello, only objects (planets) BETWEEN us (Earth) and the Sun can show phases, i.e. the Moon, and true planets Venus and Mercury. other planets which are beyond our orbit, Mars, Jupiter,...

David,Thanks for your pictures, I think the ones with the Meade and the Sony are excellent.I could not find the focal length of the ETX-125 (1250mm ?), but you have a very detailed picture of the...

I live in Florida and I bought mine from Amazon ($2975 currently) it is sent by UPS and requires signature, so I would think it is safe... whether Amazon will agree or not to ship it to a hotel, I...

Very sharp pictures of a moving object, OK these planes are not jets but again both pictures are really sharp. True, given that there are propellers, the traditional technique consists of shooting...

Definitely YES... Excellent idea...

Also Adorama

Absolutely beautiful, which lens did you use, what shutter speed?

My mistake, sorry I did not see there were not complete circles.. ignore my sarcasm... this is a really nice picture.

BTW how did you do this interesting "montage?"In a 2.5 hours period all you could get is about one tenth of a full circle, assuming you could even get a 2.5 hours exposure (what camera will let you...

Beautiful, I really love it so I am going to try to do something similar. What were the parameters you used? ISO? and exposure mainly.Also which lens did you use? I could use the 17-40, the 50mm,...

Thanks for this information, it is quite useful. She has her own printer and she uses it a lot.She does have Photoshop, probably not the latest version but certainly OK for what she needs but she...

Yogi,Thank you very much for your recommendations, I just finished implementing them (I had to download the user's manual first...) but that was easy and I am sure you corrected an almost 2 years...

My daughter had a T1i (500D) for 18 months and has always been complaining about the color (or lack of it) of her pictures with it. She just visited us with her camera, I tried it and indeed...

To Shorthand,Thanks for your answer, I appreciate it. I did know that DxO were comparing and analyzing sensors but I did not know they were also doing these activities on lenses and what was really...

To hotdog321, Thanks, it sounds like pretty good advice... I will buy the non L version.I do this as my hobby (one advantage of being old and retired...) and by training I am not a photographer...

To Hotdog321,Thanks for your post and it is quite a good picture. It turns out that I am also looking for a macro lens and I was considering either this lens or its L version. It is mainly for...

Very nice pictures... I was hesitant about buying a 5D Mark III and I am slowly changing my mind , and your pictures push me in that direction... so it looks that you will be partly responsible...

Hans, I had my 1Ds Mark II for over 6 years. I bought it new and I have very few actuations (I think cost wise it would be about the same. I use the camera for wildlife, some architecture,...

Very nice picture, what did you use to track? Thanks for posting. Simon

I purchased the 1DS Mark II in 2006 and I am still using it. Typically I use RAW + large JPG, if the Jpegs are good, I do not keep the RAWs, if they need improvement then of course I use the RAWs. ...