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Anybody using MFT bodies for astrophotography?

Started Oct 8, 2016 | Discussions thread
Jan Chelminski Senior Member • Posts: 2,466
Why not? It’s easy now!

With good m4/3 equip, why not?

I never thought to try myself, until recently, but it seems it can even be accomplished, in a fashion, even when handholding:

I’ve heard some astrophotographers prize super fast telephotos, like the old OM 250mm f/2, but I can imagine the new super zoom would do ‘as well’ on a tracking rig, etc, but that specialized type of narrow angle type of photography, certainly gets much much more demanding, in terms of optics, at which point, I’m not even sure that the sensor is such a factor, relatively.

Once, I (briefly) had a nice Questar mirror lens, I’ll never forgive myself for letting that thing go before testing it on one of my cameras! Ugh, regrets. 😩

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