Canon Users Coffee Session - Part III

[Wibblo]

cheer and vaib...at least 5 -8 persons will be there...just look at their hands...as long as they have Canon there...promise u...at least 5 Canons there....just wave ur hands...

no such thing as noobs...only ppl who buy and let their camera rot in the cabinets...and those who use their cameras...

 

[weixing]

Hi,
I think I'll be able to drop by with my DSLR... will be my first time outing with clubsnap guys!

Have a nice day.

 

[trident]

1) USM
2) Trident
3) Wibblo (9.30pm onwards)
4) peterpan1975 (onz ... and ready for nite shoots)
5) cheerful88
6) denniskee
7) roastpuff (450D, EF 200mm f/2.8L, Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8, EF 50mm f/1.8, MBP 17" with DPP, tripod - cheap one only..
8) syl (aka winston) May bring my new Acratech Long Lens Ball Head - good for 600mm f4.
9) sgblee & friend
10) vince
11) viabhav
12) weixing

 

[trident]

A big "Thank You" to USM for organizing this coffee session and all the people who attended.
Judging from the noise level I think we all enjoyed ourselves very much.

 

[weixing]

Hi,
Thanks to USM for organizing this fun coffee session... :thumbsup::thumbsup: Very happy to know so many Canon DSLR users and hope to learn from you guys the way of photography

Anyway, some of you was interested to know what type of equipment are used to took Astrophotography, so below are the two photo of my basic Astrophotography setup:

Side View: Vixen R200SS Newtonian Telescope with Canon 450D on Vixen GPD Equatorial Mount

Front View: Vixen R200SS Newtonian Telescope with Canon 450D on Vixen GPD Equatorial Mount

Have a nice day.

 

[denniskee]

hi weixing,

that setup can shoot bird?

 

[peterpan1975]

OMG !!! big big white gun .. !! impressive.

 

[denniskee]

should put a red rubber band on the hood.:bsmilie::bsmilie:

 

[roastpuff]

weixing, that reminds me of a SRAW anti-tank weapon... got rocket inside or not?

 

[dEthANGeL]

sorry guys ... had something on last minute, couldn't make it. Looks as though this time round the turn out was much bigger :sweat: :bsmilie:

WAHHHHH.... BIG WHITE CANON! ... Pretty impressive setup, the tripod alone is scary. :sweat:

 

[kencfk]

Thats a heavy duty survoyor tripod.

 

[weixing]

Hi,

hi weixing,

that setup can shoot bird?

May be possible if the bird don't move that much... hee hee hee ;p

should put a red rubber band on the hood.:bsmilie:

That's a good idea... hmm... where got sell such big red rubber band?? ;p

Thats a heavy duty survoyor tripod.

That's not a surveyor tripod... This is an equatorial mount tripod for Vixen GP series equatorial mount and it's the light duty version... the heavy duty ones are at least around 1.3kg heavier.

I never use this scope to shoot any terrestrial/animals photo, so not sure how will it perform. Since there is no aperture control (I think Vixen used to sell a manual aperture control adapter), you can only shoot it at wide open and a mirror telescope is quite sensitive to temperature changes. Also, I think the contrast will not be as good as those lenses as there is a central obstruction in this scope.

Anyway, the advantage of using telescope is you can get very high focal length at much lower cost (I got a 1.6x barlow which will basically increase the focal length of this scope to 1280mm f/6.4), but the disadvantage is no aperture control and no auto focus.

By the way, may be I should try to use this scope to shoot some photo to test out the performance and to find out whether is it practical to use this scope on photography. Below is some photo of my portable set up for observation which mount the scope on an AstroSlew II Alt-Az mount head and Manfrotto 475B tripod... a more practical photography set up:

Side View: Vixen R200SS Newtonian on AstroSlew II Mount Head and Manfrotto 475B Tripod

Front View: Vixen R200SS Newtonian on AstroSlew II Mount Head and Manfrotto 475B Tripod

Have a nice day.

 

[cheerful88]

impressive! show more photo leh...

nice meeting all of you... look forward to next session

 

[trident]

weixing,
nice meeting you and your setup rocks!
like nothing I have seen before
you should have brought it last night to show us
richard

 

[USM]

weixing,
nice meeting you and your setup rocks!
like nothing I have seen before
you should have brought it last night to show us
richard

Not unless our Porter Dennis is willing to do so.