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anyone modded eos r successfully for astrophotography?

Started Nov 18, 2020 | Discussions thread
Tristimulus Veteran Member • Posts: 9,998
Re: anyone modded eos r successfully for astrophotography?

bc0428 wrote:

Wow thanks everyone for the detailed reply!

The problem is, my parents are giving me the R since they are considering a new one, so I believe it’s the best to just mod it, extra money on Ra seems unwise to me, i would go for a dedicated Astro camera with that price tag. I’m not sure how serious the moire pattern will be, but I suppose that isn’t too obvious on an astro-image which most of it is dark?

Wait a bit - take some astro images with the unmodded camera and see what you get. New cameras have higher Ha sensitivity than older ones - and the unmodded camera can be successfully used for aunt Annie as well as Andromeda.

Go for the North America nebula and the Rosette nebula for a first look. I have successfully imaged both objects with an unmodded Sony A7III - and the unmodded Canon should be a much better camera for deep sky photography (very pleased with the Sony for everything but astrophotography - have an astromodded Canon 6D lying around).

And I just find the structure of sensor quite different from other DSLRs, including the one I modded, so I was just worried about tearing the wrong part out. Is there any schematic diagram that shows the Anatomy of R’s sensor?

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