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kev-xkq New Member • Posts: 12
nx1-astronomy photography
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The milky way in Shanghai suburb under severe light pollution. Using the 10mm fisheye. Heavy post-processing. You can see my little telescope here:-)

The star trails. 10mm fisheye

Nebula M14. Spot by nx1 with the telescope you can see in the first picture (F=350mm)

 kev-xkq's gear list:kev-xkq's gear list
Samsung NX 30mm F2 Pancake Samsung NX 50-200mm F4-5.6 OIS Samsung NX 10mm F3.5 Fisheye Samsung 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 power zoom
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Lawrence Norman
Lawrence Norman Regular Member • Posts: 437
Re: nx1-astronomy photography

kev-xkq wrote:

1. The milky way in Shanghai suburb under severe light pollution. Using the 10mm fisheye. Heavy post-processing. You can see my little telescope here:-)

2. The star trails. 10mm fisheye

3. Nebula M14. Spot by nx1 with the telescope you can see in the first picture (F=350mm)

First and foremost, the Samsung 10mm F3.5 fisheye is such a gem; and every Samsung forum post I've read agrees. I really how you "correctly" composed your two fisheye photos, very well done [I own and love this lens as MANY do in our forum; never once read a single bad review!]

For astrophotography, you probably know about the Samyang / Rokinon 12mm f/2 mirrorless lens. Suggest searching our Samsung Forum and the Astrophotography forum for opinions. Samyang / Rokinon use to sell their 12mm f/2 with the Samsung NX / Canon EF mount. I bought mine with the NX mount, but the EF mount provides the added advantage to adapt it to many other body manufacturers including Samsung (EF->NX). Did a quick search in the used market and found this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/124672545726?hash=item1d071013be:g:dkkAAOSwD71gbu9D&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoDupZlTtkp2vttyKYModAIfOq1DWUi1%2F1wQ3PK%2B4PpudLXSznFiZzHR0gafDk0ggBrbVkdg72aRvPgw10VoxytP%2BpMuH%2FSp2SZ6yu6hqiQL2V6uAVqSl%2FAAugRPzGByoWMm2tZmyAJg7a517J0fu%2FRORJ4S3HrFpo38NuFZhLcf4GCCrbmsAjmX3kzzZPKpOmM3aujZfq%2FY2SffZNdZhLF0%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR8idk4KdYQ
Samsung's NX 12-24mm f/4.0-5.6 is a GREAT lens, but in my option, too slow for astrophotography. I have Samyang's 12mm f/2 in the Samsung mount and Samsung's NX 12-24mm f/4.0-5.6, and fine each GREAT for their specific use-cases

You 'may' want to reevaluate if you photographed the M14 (Messier 14) Nebula. I only mention this because M14 is a Globular Cluster. I like your nebula photo regardless and you're the expert here not me. I only mention this when I reviewed M14 photos from the Messier website at https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-14/My humble apologies if I'm wrong
Best regards,
Lawrence Norman

 Lawrence Norman's gear list:Lawrence Norman's gear list
Samsung NX1 Samsung NX500 Samsung NX 30mm F2 Pancake Samsung NX 50-200mm F4-5.6 OIS Samyang 85mm F1.4 Aspherical IF +18 more
Wahid Khan 1961 Regular Member • Posts: 179
Re: nx1-astronomy photography

Nice. Great shot of the nebula.

I've being trying to get hold of the 10mm for sensible money for some time. The only NX lens I've never owned. Still hoping.

 Wahid Khan 1961's gear list:Wahid Khan 1961's gear list
Samsung NX10 Pentax K-5 Samsung NX1000 Samsung NX20 Samsung NX1100 +32 more
OP kev-xkq New Member • Posts: 12
Re: nx1-astronomy photography

Lawrence Norman wrote:

kev-xkq wrote:

1. The milky way in Shanghai suburb under severe light pollution. Using the 10mm fisheye. Heavy post-processing. You can see my little telescope here:-)

2. The star trails. 10mm fisheye

3. Nebula M14. Spot by nx1 with the telescope you can see in the first picture (F=350mm)

First and foremost, the Samsung 10mm F3.5 fisheye is such a gem; and every Samsung forum post I've read agrees. I really how you "correctly" composed your two fisheye photos, very well done [I own and love this lens as MANY do in our forum; never once read a single bad review!]

For astrophotography, you probably know about the Samyang / Rokinon 12mm f/2 mirrorless lens. Suggest searching our Samsung Forum and the Astrophotography forum for opinions. Samyang / Rokinon use to sell their 12mm f/2 with the Samsung NX / Canon EF mount. I bought mine with the NX mount, but the EF mount provides the added advantage to adapt it to many other body manufacturers including Samsung (EF->NX). Did a quick search in the used market and found this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/124672545726?hash=item1d071013be:g:dkkAAOSwD71gbu9D&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoDupZlTtkp2vttyKYModAIfOq1DWUi1%2F1wQ3PK%2B4PpudLXSznFiZzHR0gafDk0ggBrbVkdg72aRvPgw10VoxytP%2BpMuH%2FSp2SZ6yu6hqiQL2V6uAVqSl%2FAAugRPzGByoWMm2tZmyAJg7a517J0fu%2FRORJ4S3HrFpo38NuFZhLcf4GCCrbmsAjmX3kzzZPKpOmM3aujZfq%2FY2SffZNdZhLF0%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR8idk4KdYQ
Samsung's NX 12-24mm f/4.0-5.6 is a GREAT lens, but in my option, too slow for astrophotography. I have Samyang's 12mm f/2 in the Samsung mount and Samsung's NX 12-24mm f/4.0-5.6, and fine each GREAT for their specific use-cases

You 'may' want to reevaluate if you photographed the M14 (Messier 14) Nebula. I only mention this because M14 is a Globular Cluster. I like your nebula photo regardless and you're the expert here not me. I only mention this when I reviewed M14 photos from the Messier website at https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-14/My humble apologies if I'm wrong
Best regards,
Lawrence Norman

I'm very sorry for writing the wrong Messier number. this nebula I photographed is M16, known as the Eagle Nebula. I'm surprised at such a careless mistake I have made!

For me, I use Sequator to compose stars and it has a function to automatically correct the distortion so the fisheye photos can be composed perfectly.

10mm is a great lens indeed, very small and light, and has decent image quality, but the stars on the border of the image, as you can see, is considerably distorted. The wide angle prime lens, 16mm and 10mm both do a poor job on this at large aperture (the 16mm is even inferior to the 1650pz kit lens in this case). To be ashamed, I have neither of the lens you mentioned. I've heard about the Samyang 12mm f2, but I thought the 12-24 can play an equivalent role of it. They have the same angle of view and F4 won't be a trouble to me. Longer exposure can make up the disadvantage of small aperture.

I've bought a Samyang 10mm f2.8 (no fisheye)at $100 several days before and it's still on the way. I thought it would be a better choice than 12 f2 for me due to its wider angle.

 kev-xkq's gear list:kev-xkq's gear list
Samsung NX 30mm F2 Pancake Samsung NX 50-200mm F4-5.6 OIS Samsung NX 10mm F3.5 Fisheye Samsung 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 power zoom
Lawrence Norman
Lawrence Norman Regular Member • Posts: 437
Re: nx1-astronomy photography

kev-xkq wrote:

Lawrence Norman wrote:

kev-xkq wrote:

1. The milky way in Shanghai suburb under severe light pollution. Using the 10mm fisheye. Heavy post-processing. You can see my little telescope here:-)

2. The star trails. 10mm fisheye

3. Nebula M14. Spot by nx1 with the telescope you can see in the first picture (F=350mm)

First and foremost, the Samsung 10mm F3.5 fisheye is such a gem; and every Samsung forum post I've read agrees. I really how you "correctly" composed your two fisheye photos, very well done [I own and love this lens as MANY do in our forum; never once read a single bad review!]

For astrophotography, you probably know about the Samyang / Rokinon 12mm f/2 mirrorless lens. Suggest searching our Samsung Forum and the Astrophotography forum for opinions. Samyang / Rokinon use to sell their 12mm f/2 with the Samsung NX / Canon EF mount. I bought mine with the NX mount, but the EF mount provides the added advantage to adapt it to many other body manufacturers including Samsung (EF->NX). Did a quick search in the used market and found this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/124672545726?hash=item1d071013be:g:dkkAAOSwD71gbu9D&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoDupZlTtkp2vttyKYModAIfOq1DWUi1%2F1wQ3PK%2B4PpudLXSznFiZzHR0gafDk0ggBrbVkdg72aRvPgw10VoxytP%2BpMuH%2FSp2SZ6yu6hqiQL2V6uAVqSl%2FAAugRPzGByoWMm2tZmyAJg7a517J0fu%2FRORJ4S3HrFpo38NuFZhLcf4GCCrbmsAjmX3kzzZPKpOmM3aujZfq%2FY2SffZNdZhLF0%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR8idk4KdYQ
Samsung's NX 12-24mm f/4.0-5.6 is a GREAT lens, but in my option, too slow for astrophotography. I have Samyang's 12mm f/2 in the Samsung mount and Samsung's NX 12-24mm f/4.0-5.6, and fine each GREAT for their specific use-cases

You 'may' want to reevaluate if you photographed the M14 (Messier 14) Nebula. I only mention this because M14 is a Globular Cluster. I like your nebula photo regardless and you're the expert here not me. I only mention this when I reviewed M14 photos from the Messier website at https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-14/My humble apologies if I'm wrong
Best regards,
Lawrence Norman

I'm very sorry for writing the wrong Messier number. this nebula I photographed is M16, known as the Eagle Nebula. I'm surprised at such a careless mistake I have made!

Easy mistake to make; so many Messier objects in the universe!

For me, I use Sequator to compose stars and it has a function to automatically correct the distortion so the fisheye photos can be composed perfectly.

10mm is a great lens indeed, very small and light, and has decent image quality, but the stars on the border of the image, as you can see, is considerably distorted. The wide angle prime lens, 16mm and 10mm both do a poor job on this at large aperture (the 16mm is even inferior to the 1650pz kit lens in this case). To be ashamed, I have neither of the lens you mentioned. I've heard about the Samyang 12mm f2, but I thought the 12-24 can play an equivalent role of it. They have the same angle of view and F4 won't be a trouble to me. Longer exposure can make up the disadvantage of small aperture.

I've bought a Samyang 10mm f2.8 (no fisheye)at $100 several days before and it's still on the way. I thought it would be a better choice than 12 f2 for me due to its wider angle.

The Samyang 10mm f2.8 is a big heavy lens (compared to their 12mm f/2) BUT for Astro it will be tripod mounted, wider, all PERFECT for your use-case

 Lawrence Norman's gear list:Lawrence Norman's gear list
Samsung NX1 Samsung NX500 Samsung NX 30mm F2 Pancake Samsung NX 50-200mm F4-5.6 OIS Samyang 85mm F1.4 Aspherical IF +18 more
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