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Anybody using MFT bodies for astrophotography?

Started Oct 8, 2016 | Discussions thread
Mark9473 Veteran Member • Posts: 6,428
Re: Anybody using MFT bodies for astrophotography?

On 2x crop sensors, Moon images start having an interesting scale and level of detail from a lens focal length of about 600 mm or more, and even then you'll be cropping. There's not going to be any legacy lens that is as good and as cost effective as a telescope. For about $1K you can get an apochromatic refractor telescope and the mount needed to hold it steady.

Edit: I just looked at your thread in the AP forum, and just to clarify, I meant 600 mm native i.e. 1200 mm FF eq.

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