Originally posted by Marktax Thanks for replies, everyone! I should have mentioned that I was an early adopter of the K-3 Premium Silver, almost the day it came out, and paid more than TWICE this $829. That K-3 has been a real workhorse for me, no failures whatsoever. I can keep going with it, except that I have some starscape-over-cityscape pictures planned, which would demand the GPS -- or maybe just the external GPS module that I could get for the K-3. But that is $185, which is far enough down the road to $829 that the K-3ii seems like the better idea. BTW, any examples of stars over city skylines from anyone using K-3ii or K-1 with native astrotracer (not scope mounts on motors)? K-1 is tempting, but that starts another round of lens chasing. Maybe just the new FF wide zoom would be possible for me, for this project. Too bad the 20-40 ltd.isn't FF. I love that on K-3
If you already have the K-3 then getting the GPS seems like a small investment and the extra $600 can buy a pretty nice FF lens, especially if bought used. This way you can start planning for full frame and upgrade bodies later.
If you are interested in pixel shift like functionality look into stacking using the
super resolution method off of a tripod. You will have to take more shots to get the slight jitter but it does work. 9 to 16 should start to show pretty good results and in the 25 to 36 range you start getting some great results. Once all the images are aligned, stacked, and flatted just down sample to the original size.
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Originally posted by Marktax BTW, any examples of stars over city skylines from anyone using K-3ii or K-1 with native astrotracer (not scope mounts on motors)? K-1 is tempting, but that starts another round of lens chasing.
I should have kept reading. Over in the astrophotograpphy group
Pete_XL just posted a couple and he uses a K-3ii but I don't know if those were with astrotracer or not, and
there was this discussion a little while ago on the subject.