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32mm f/1.4 - Jupiter Crossing Galactic Core (PIC)

Started May 7, 2019 | Discussions thread
Marco Nero
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To: AminF - Re: 32mm f/1.4
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AminF wrote:

You took this with the M6 and the 32mm???

Wow, that is a nice photo - amazing result.

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Yes... I rarely bring a DSLR with me for this sort of thing any more.  This lens is bright enough to use for selective astrophotography.  It's great to get shots like that one in a single exposure although I find the Field Of View is fairly narrow.  If you look at the image directly below, you can see how much of the scene gets trimmed at 32mm.  The 11-22mm lens was certainly wide, but it's too dim for effective astro work (by comparison).  I've tried with the 11-22mm lens but the results were far too muddy and soft for me.
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You can see the amount of the background is cropped by the narrow field of view of the 32mm lens compared to 11mm.  The 11mm is certainly wide but it's surprisingly poor for astro work due to the f/4 aperture.

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The lens is certainly sensitive enough.  It's capable of picking up nebulous matter and faint dwarf galaxies like the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.  I think I had stated earlier that the 32mm lens is better for targeting specific celestial events rather than wide-field astrophotography.  The EF-M 22mm f/2 STM lens is still my favorite native M lens for shooting the Milky Way.  It's just wide enough for most shots and it's both crisp and bright.  The 32mm is quite different to handle but it's astoundingly sharp.  The additional magnification over the 22mm lens brings out additional detail and possibly better color isolation.
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32mm - Galactic Core rising over Sydney (2x shot exposure)

32mm - Comet 46P/Wirtanen (December 2018) - 8 shots stacked.

32mm - Looking South with the NiSi Natural Night filter - single exposure

32mm - Comet 46P/Wirtanen is the 'Green Blob' in the Bokeh

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