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Night Sky Shooting / Astrophotography on X-T2 : ETTR? ISO 1600?

Started Oct 2, 2018 | Discussions thread
01Ryan10
01Ryan10 Forum Member • Posts: 56
Re: Night Sky Shooting / Astrophotography on X-T2 : ETTR? ISO 1600?
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Hello all.  I kind of mistakenly stumbled upon this thread via a link from another forum.  It takes some work, but the X-T2, when pushed with an astro tracker, makes the best starry skies I have created, (previously used Canon 6D and 5D4, Nikon D750, and Sony A73).

From my various readings online, The X-T2 has a reletively weak color filter array, which allows a higher amount of H-alpha reds to pass through to the sensor compared to most other unmodified cameras.  I can vouch that out of all the cameras I've tried, it does indeed produce more pronounced red nebulae.

I will say, without a tracker, the X-T2's night skies are a bit too "grainy" for my taste, but after 2 years, I continue to use it with my tracker over any other camera.

I'd be more than happy to answer any questions.

This is from an outing to Joshua Tree NP this past June.

Devine Joshua Tree

This is a 100% crop of the sky above with Jupiter.  Taken with Fuji 16mm F/1.4 @ F/2.8, 4 mins, ISO 800.

100% crop of sky in above image.

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