Originally posted by oliver939 Hi Skymist,
I'm desperately looking for astrophotographies taken with k5 (Im still with k100d and look for an upgrade for occasional astrophoto) and hope such a section opens in this forum.
Not to be rude
, but your pic is not showing the K5 as a good astrophoto camera (but you may have not pp your pic as most do).
If you do more astrophoto, i'd be pleased to see some more, specially wide sky landscapes.
Glad to hear from someone else who takes sky pictures. Yes, we could request an astronomical or scientific section to the site. It's not ever going to be a popular one, but posts will remain relevant for years.
So what kind of picture would show K-5 in a better light? The composite picture I posted was mostly to show sharp focus and resolution. Generally I convert to monochrome but I didn't this time. And I pushed the exposure until the background noise became apparent, though most of what you see is remnant of sky glow. I'm still learning as I go. I started out with a Canon 550D, and the K-5 seems to be superior to the Canon for this purpose.