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twelly27

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Hi all I'm going to astro camp on the 7th of September, and I'm looking to rent a wide angle lens as the Milky Way is right over head and I thought it would be a good chance to get some Milky Way pictures, but I haven't a clue when it comes to cameras, can anyone suggest the things I should look out for when I'm looking at the lenses? Or suggest some that you use or know that would work.

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JamesF

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If you want to keep the cost under control then you can do a reasonable job with the kit 18-55mm lens, or get a smaller field of view with the nifty fifty. If you want real wide angle though, I have a feeling that's going to cost.

James

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Check out the Canon 15mm 2.8 full frame fish-eye. It's fast, sharp wide open and easy to focus at infinity, and gives an amazing FOV. Or, as you're renting and not looking to fork out around £2k, why not treat yourself to a Canon 14mm 2.8 Mk2. It's corrected so doesn't distort like the fish-eye although that's not really a problem when shooting the MW.

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Check out the Canon 15mm 2.8 full frame fish-eye. It's fast, sharp wide open and easy to focus at infinity, and gives an amazing FOV. Or, as you're renting and not looking to fork out around £2k, why not treat yourself to a Canon 14mm 2.8 Mk2. It's corrected so doesn't distort like the fish-eye although that's not really a problem when shooting the MW.

The canon 15mm 2.8 is £32 to rent for 3days which I don't think Is that bad, it doesn't say anywhere if it will fit into a canon 1000D, or is it a case of one size fit all?

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I'm not familiar with the 1000D but if it takes EF lenses then the 15mm will fit. Of course with a crop sensor you won't get the full coverage of the lens, but it'll still be mighty wide!

All of these pics were shot with the 15mm: http://stargazerslou...-usa-milkyways/

i think it does take EF lenses and that's the kind of pictures I'd like, at the moment the lens I have to use zooms in too far the best I've got is this after I stacked 30 min worth of data the second one is a single 3min shot

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Here's the DXO Test results - Interesting comparison between the nearly £2k Canon and £329 Samyang 14mm f2.8 lenses...

http://www.dxomark.c...ang/(camera2)/0 - 1.3x Crop (APS-H)

http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/Lenses/Compare-Camera-Lenses/Compare-lenses/(lens1)/789/(lens2)/365/(brand1)/Canon/(camera1)/586/(brand2)/Samyang/(camera2)/586 1.6x Crop (APS-C)

http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/Lenses/Compare-Camera-Lenses/Compare-lenses/(lens1)/789/(lens2)/365/(brand1)/Canon/(camera1)/795/(brand2)/Samyang/(camera2)/795 Full Frame

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I can second the Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens. I was out this past summer taking milky way shots with it on my canon rebel t3i, and I got some amazing shots. And, for a wide-angle lens, it's cheap!

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JamesF

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I've actually just checked what lens the camera takes, and it takes EFS not EF :/ I haven't a clue what to do now

That's fine. An EF lens will fit a camera that accepts EF-S lenses, but a camera that takes EF lenses (the full frame ones, generally?) will not necessarily accept an EF-S one.

James

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