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Night photography tips

Started 6 months ago | Discussions thread
Sittatunga Veteran Member • Posts: 5,406
Re: Night photography tips

Nipar wrote:

Dear friends,

I just come back from Uzbekistan and sadly I couldn't take any milky way pic in the night we were in the desert because a full and brighty moon...

I also tried to get some "torch beam" pic without success indeed.

Anyway: most of the time I shot with the 32mm.

I changed extremely frequently to 11-22, that's why I was wondering...in the last years did some fast lens (low F or fixed F) into the range 11-32 come out?

I'd like to get the same beautiful pics of the 32mm but having a better range in order to avoid changing lens each two minutes.

Any suggestion?

The EF-M 22mm f/2 duplicates the long end of your 11-22mm but is three stops (8×) faster. You're better off without AF for nightscapes and focus by wire is an embarrassment, so it's worth looking at cheap Chinese and Korean manual focus lenses. The Samyang (alias Rokinon) 12mm f/2 that I used for that star trail further up the thread is excellent in EF-M mount - there are now cheaper Chinese 12mm f/2 lenses with metal bodies, but I don't know how good they are.  My Samyang 21mm /1.4 is even better than the Canon EF-M 22mm  (I found it better for stars than the RF 35mm f/1.8 on full-frame), but it was quite expensive and the British importer no longer lists it, though Samyang still do.

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