Andy01

Counts me out - in Australian summer we have been sitting over 30°C (86°F) pretty much for the last 2-3 weeks :-) The only ice around here is the stuff that goes into cocktails. The closest ice ...

Seeing as there hasn't been any other responses, may I suggest that you spend some time doing a search in this forum. I suspect that you will find a number of threads that compare those two lenses ...

It depends on the distance to subject and how far they are from their backgrounds. Using a DoF calculator; At 20m to subject, f8 & 200mm focal length, your DoF is 1.74m in front of subject to 2m ...

The original non-IS Canon EF 100mm f2.8 Macro is probably the best choice for indoors and tripod on a budget. From what I could gather the IQ is pretty similar to the L version, but minus the IS, ...

I have never done ski shooting, but I would guess; Set AF mode to Servo and use a group of maybe 9 AF points, and track the subject as it moves past Shutter speed - probably at least 1/1500th if ...

Generally I don't use a tripod when shooting the moon with my Canon 6D ii + EF 100-400L ii - I usually end up with a shutter speed around 1/400th, so I just hand hold - I find that at 400mm on a ...

Well forget about that :-) A lens that can do a nice nightscape, daytime landscape and a good moon probably doesn't exist. Generally landscapes and nightscapes are wide angle (yes, I am aware that ...

Have you looked on typical second hand sites (eg. eBay, Gumtree, Craigslist etc) in whatever country you live in to see what similar equipment sells for ? It also obviously depends on condition ...

I assume that you have looked at the specs ? https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Lens-Specifications.aspx?Lens=1417&LensComp=1529 The f4 version is a few hundred grams lighter which is not ...

I smiled when I read this because I was thinking the same as the previous poster. I would guess that with astro you might spend 10-50 times as long (probably longer with detailed DSO images) doing ...

Welcome to the astro forum. Have you done a search here looking for similar threads ? This question comes up every couple of weeks, so there is lots of info out there. You can also look at websites ...

Welcome to the forum. Another first timer who has replied to a old thread where the OP hasn't been posting on DPR since this thread was started 18 months ago, so probably unlikely that you will get ...

To try to make it a little clearer - the USB port is a comms port ONLY (at the camera end), not a power port. The fact that the other end of the USB might have power supplied to it is irrelevant - ...

Canon has been supplying the centre pinch style with lenses for quite a few years now - it is only the older lenses that still have the old edge-pinch style. I started buying no-name (well, they ...

No clue with Panasonic, but with Canon DPAF most of the video guys (I am not one) seem to prefer the STM. Correct. I have never used one, but according to this comparison, it is not great (you can ...

+1 on the above comment about the eyes being OOF as well. I would agree with aiming for ideal focus on the eyes, but in this case there is really nothing significant (maybe the branch is close to ...

There is a very good EF 70-300mm (not 75-300mm) which is well thought of for it's fast AF that would be worth looking at - a bit of extra reach on sports fields is rarely a bad thing. Colin

It sounds like you want it primarily for video, so probably a STM lens might be the best option. Have you looked at a second hand EF 24-105 STM ? Or even a EF-S lens like 18-55mm or 18-135mm - I ...

Welcome to the forum. I very much doubt that the poster will see your message. You replied to a thread that is over 8 years old and the poster only made the one post in 2012, and hasn't posted since. ...

Very few laptops have the grunt of even a mid-range desktop. This is because the laptop CPUs are so heavily throttled back to reduce heat and power consumption that they are nowhere close to a ...