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My D7000 uses the older standard Mini-B. I guess I assumed the D750 was a Micro-B like most every phone or other portable device with USB. When a micro-B cable would not fit, I ordered a USB type C cable from Amazon. It arrived today, connector too big. What is that connector? I want to tether...

From last year at a lake well past the park's closing hour. I was waiting for the clouds and the waning twilight to go away, so I just experimented with a selfie. I actually like this composition with the clouds better.

I did some experimenting this past Saturday night when the Moon and Mars were converged together. I had my 1970's Nikkor 500mm f/8 reflex lens mounted to my D7000 and Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 C mounted to my D750. I used my SkyWatcher AZ-GTi goto mount and tripod as the base. Both of the cameras...

I only worked after sunset in August. It's a composite that lost it's EXIF data in the process. D750, Sigma 20mm f/1.4 Art, ISO 200, f/1.8, 15 seconds.

I have gone back and revisited some old moon photos now that I have installed Registax. Had 2 sets where I took enough shots to remove the noise.

@TwistedThrottle: I got out to my backyard in the pre-dawn to attempt Venus, Mars, and Uranus this morning. Turns out my yard is a terrible location in summer with tree canopy issues. But I used this as an opportunity to revisit DigiCamControl. Connected to my D7000 via USB cable I could display...

I have taken photos of the moon with various lenses over 12 years. I've used a 70-300mm, which was my longest zoom lens for nearly a decade. I bought a Nikkor 500mm reflex lens from the 1970s and used that for a while. I found both of those lenses a bit soft for this work. I use a Sigma...

Autofocus selected the background. :(

TT: You are right in that it is all learning curve. You may be surprised how quickly those lessons will take. I have been finding that Sequator is not as good with the deep-space stacking and may leave the image looking just a bit fuzzy. I actually revisited 2 images I originally stacked with...

Weather was perfect this past 11th of August, which was the peak night for the Perseid meteor shower. I also decided to target Jupiter and Saturn the same night. On a tripod pointed north: D750 + Sigma 20mm f/1.4 with the intervalometer set to take a 15 second exposure every 20 seconds. I was...

Tquataert, I have had a D7000 and my own example of that Tamron 18-270mm lens for many years. I have used the D7000 many times for astro-photography on tripod. But I never tried the Tamron lens for that. I had a Nikon 70-300, Nikon 500mm reflex, and later a Sigma 150-600mm C lens. What I can...

What can I say? I never actually stopped using my D80, even after buying a D7000. I owned 2 D80 bodies, bought the 2nd used with kit of accessories because the original I bought in 2007 had been cosmetically beaten-up on hiking trails. A D80 was always my backup camera body. As recently as 2017...

I think it is this one featuring NEOWISE. Used my backup D7000 + Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 Art lens.

Let's resurrect this old but worthy thread. I had my old D80 IR converted this year and prior to that I was using my much older Coolpix 995 (converted). Some of this year's work. And I even was insane enough to try to shoot comet NEOWISE with the Tamron 90mm fitted. That was a fail...

There is a lake and a highway in the farther background. A small city is out of frame to the left. The light pollution is an issue that way. I did use a light-pollution filter in front of the lens, but it was beginning to fog with dew around midnight when I did this. I use Sequator to stack...

I am going to go back to 2017 on a night when I was set up looking for Aurora that did not happen. I noticed I could just make out the Milky Way looking up. So I turned the tripod around and attempted to photograph the Milky Way without actually having done any research into how to do it right...

I spent 3 nights shooting the comet. I could have gone out 5 nights as I was blessed with unusually favorable weather for July. 1st night: D750 + Sigma 150-600mm C lens. Using a Skywatcher AZ-GTi mount to track the comet with 40 second exposures. 2nd night: I started with same setup, but with...

I am Chris, a hobbyist photographer although I have taken money for an event or 2 over the years. I took a photography class in high school way back in 1982. I did not actually acquire my own film SLR for another 15 years when I picked up an entire Minolta XD-11 kit at an auction. I bought a...

I bought a SkyWatcher AZ-GTi last December and updated it with the alternate firmware to work in Equitorial mode. With the additional Sky-Adventurer hardware required to mount a camera and angle it right I've been pleasantly surprised by how well it tracks. I don't push the exposures past 1...

Hello, I'm a newbie here. I did get out on 3 nights over 1 week. The skies were perfect enough that I could have gone out 5 nights. I tried to do different things each night. Mostly I took 30 or so exposures with each composition to give the option of layer-stacking. First night, I was...