Go for one of these: https://aas.org/files/cfht_star_trails.jpg
Alan C On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 9:21 PM Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > I was doing some idle poking around on ebay, KEH etc. for some wishlist > items and one thing that I'm actively looking for. I figure that it's > worth mentioning them here in case anybody is looking to sell one of them, > or has some important advice about any of these. > > The one thing that I'm actively looking for is an equatorial mount. I'm > planning on heading out to visit my sister and catch the total eclipse in > April. At the 2018 eclipse I just used a tripod and had to keep adjusting > it every few minutes to keep the sun in the frame. > > There are a couple of lenses on my wishlist. I don't have an immediate > need for them, but they're always on the back of my mind and I could be > motivated by a particularly good deal. > > 85/1.4 I can find an FA* 85/1.4, with hood on ebay (from Japan) for $650, > which is about half of what a dfa 85/1.4 would cost, even used. I love my > 77/1.8 but when photographing musicians I always seem to want a bit more > reach and a bit more speed. > > Sigma 18-35/1.8 Now that my K-3 III is my daily driver body, and my K-1 > is my special purpose body, the 18-35 would be very handy for shooting > indoors and save me from swapping between my 20/1.8 and 31/1.8. > > 24-70/2.8 I've got the tamron 28-75/2.8 and it's a great fair weather > daily driver, but for foul weather I'm stuck with the 28-105 which is > generally fast enough for outdoors which is where I usually need weather > sealing. > > A modern "long" lens. My 50-500 bigma has given me many years of good > service, but its focus is a bit slow and a bit noisy. There have been many > times that I've tried to photograph a critter and as soon as I tried to > autofocus the noise of the lens scared the beast away. > > > -- > Larry Colen > l...@red4est.com sent from ret13est > > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
