Adapted lenses - Post your PHOTOS! - Part 4

Larry Rexley said:

Saturn on 4/11/2022 before sunrise. Canon M6ii, 1/60s, ISO 1600 with Meade ETX-125 telescope & 2x teleconverter, 600 of the best frames from a 2 min 4k video 'stacked' and processed to bring out subtle detail


Venus on 4/11/2022 before sunrise. Canon M6ii, 1/1000s ISO 400 with Meade ETX-125 telescope & 2x teleconverter, 600 of the best frames from a 2 min 4k video 'stacked' and processed to bring out subtle detail


The 'Summer Milky Way' at 5 AM on 4/11/2022, looking South into Scorpius and Sagittarius, Canon M6ii, Rokinon 12mm f2 lens at f2, 1s, ISO 1600, 378 RAW images 'stacked' and processed to bring out the faint star clouds of the galaxy, total exposure just over 6 minutes

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Wow, very cool, I love your results! What sort of process do you use for stacking?

tamaraw35 said:

Wow, very cool, I love your results! What sort of process do you use for stacking?

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For processing planetary and lunar images, I use AutoStakkert and Registax software (both free). For deep sky, DeepSkyStacker, also free. There are some very good videos on YouTube about using all of those programs for stacking astrophotos.

A few recent images with the R5 and Tamron 100-400

















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With Wildlife photography you don’t need to ask the creatures to sign release forms.

Here are some pictures I took with my M50 and a few lenses (EF-S 55-250, and EF 75-300 plus I think one was done with my Magnicon 70-200)...


American House Sparrow (male)


Downy Woodpecker (female)


Dark-eyed Junco (male)


American Robin (male?)


House Finch (male)

Cheers!

Rick

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Camera: Canon EOS M50
Lenses: Canon EF-S 18-55mm + 55-250mm IS II

M6 with EF 85 f1.8. Tulips.

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These are so beautiful photographs of the Tulips.

njc7 said:

M6 with EF 85 f1.8. Tulips.

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Sue Anne Rush

Bird in flight, Spanish Gull,



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Colin

Luckily skies cleared in Tampa in time for last night's total lunar eclipse, they then clouded up again right after 2 AM when the eclipse finished!

I got good results with the "new-to-me" Meade ETX-125. it's one of the original models, not the later ones with GoTo mount, and its fork mount was totally shot. I was able to mount the tube assembly onto an iOptron Sky Guider Pro, and I modified the wedge on the heavy-duty Meade field tripod to solidly mount the iOptron --- turned out to be much more stable than the iOptron's smaller wedge.

I shot with 2 Canon M6ii bodies (one on the scope, one on Bogen Manfrotto tripod with various lenses) --- great for astro with its 32.5 MP sensor. A Viltrox 0.71x speed booster (focal reducer) made the Meade ETX-125 perfect for lunar photography --- with the entire Moon just fitting into the APS-C frame. The speed booster makes the ETX-125's 1900mm f15 focal a much more useful 1350mm f11.

SKyGuider Pro tracked like a champ --- even 30s exposures at 1350mm are near-perfect. I used the lunar tracking rate and was surprised to see a star 'trail' in the 30-second exposure of totality --- but it makes sense as the Moon moves its own diameter in an hour, so in 30s the star would trail 1/120 the Moon's diameter and would be visible at this magnification.


10:41 PM, Canon M6ii, Viltrox 0.71x speed booster, Meade ETX-125, 1350mm, f11, 1/400s, ISO 400


11:11 PM, Canon M6ii, Viltrox 0.71x speed booster, Meade ETX-125, 1350mm, f11, 1/20s, ISO 100


11:33 PM, Start of Total Eclipse: Canon M6ii, Viltrox 0.71x speed booster, Meade ETX-125, 1350mm, f11, 30s, ISO 100


12:19 AM 5/16, Deepest Total Eclipse: Canon M6ii, Viltrox 0.71x speed booster, Meade ETX-125, 1350mm, f11, 8s, ISO 400

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Moon in Libra: 12:21 AM 5/16, Canon M6ii, Rokinon 135mm f2.0 lens at f2.8, SVBONY CLS 1.25" city light pollution filter mounted internally next to sensor, 1.3s, ISO 500

Nothing special except for the colors I'm a sucker for blue skies and in this case the colors of the in the bush. I was fascinated by the 2 colors of the bush the one branch a pinkish color and the others a white, seemed strange.

Who says the M50 can't do BIF? Okay, maybe it won't win any awards, but I'm quite happy with it.

Caerphilly Castle, Wales. Still using my EFS 10-22mm.

EOS M5

Tamron 35-150mm F/2.8-4 Di VC OSD + Viltrox Speed booster EF-EOS M2

106mm, f/2.8, 1/600, ISO 400

EOS M5
Canon EF 70-300mm f4.5-5.6 DO IS USM + Viltrox Speed booster EF-EOS M2
213mm, f/4, 1/320, ISO 125

Testing a new to me vintage lens

EOS M6 Mark II with Helios 44-2

ISO 800, 1/100 second, around f/2 (could be wrong about that)

A 'special' locomotive CSX #1, part of the administrative CSX 'Office train' captured in Tampa this week with my EF-modded EF-S 55-250 IS STM lens and Kenko 1.5x SHQ 5-element teleconverter, along with other shots from this week.

I removed the chip from the TC so it's now pass-through electronics and doesn't report to the EXIF data - the image captions contain the correct focal lengths and apertures. The TC combo didn't work properly with the chip installed, but without the chip, lens AF and IS work as expected on the M6ii.


Canon M6ii, EF-S 55-250 IS STM, Kenko 1.5x SHQ teleconverter, 375mm, f8, 1/1600s, ISO 160. Distorion is due to 'heat shimmering' in the distance as the train was nearly 1/2 mile away


Canon M6ii, EF-S 55-250 IS STM, Kenko 1.5x SHQ teleconverter, 200mm, f7.5, 1/640s, ISO 160

Yellow-crowned night heron kicking back a small crab for dinner, 1.5x teleconverter at ISO 20,000 with DxO PL5. (Used my technique of under-exposing at ISO 3200 and pushing in post to get 2+ EV of extra dynamic range with the low-light perf of ISO 20k).

I get a kick out of the recent YouTube Canon R7 reviews gushing at how good the R7's low-light ISO performance is with DxO or Topaz de-noise, as if this is a 'new thing' ---- The M6ii's sensor has been delivering this great high ISO performance since DxO and Topaz stepped up their de-noise algorithms a couple years ago!


Canon M6ii, EF-S 55-250 IS STM, Kenko 1.5x SHQ teleconverter, 310mm, f8, 1/100s, in-camera ISO 3200, pushed to ISO 20,000 in DxO PL5


Canon M6ii, EF-S 55-250 IS STM, Kenko 1.5x SHQ teleconverter, 375mm, f8, 1/160s, in-camera ISO 3200, pushed to ISO 20,000 in DxO PL5

Tiny birds from about 30 feet away, with Kenko 1.5x TC


Canon M6ii, EF-S 55-250 IS STM, Kenko 1.5x SHQ teleconverter, 375mm, f8, 1/1600s, ISO 640


Canon M6ii, EF-S 55-250 IS STM, Kenko 1.5x SHQ teleconverter, 375mm, f8, 1/1600s, ISO 640

M6II, Sigma EF 150-600, manually focused using peaking. Unfortunately, I had to shoot through a window, but I am still pretty happy with it.

Canon M200

Pentax 50mm 1.7

Probably shot at f2 or so. AV mode.

Dave

Post no new photos, please. Part 5 has just started.