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Shutter speed. The solar filter will come off during totality. There should be no need to hunt for the speed I was using on the ante-total phase during post-total. This will also apply to the second body I will have on a star-tracker taking a time-lapse.

I have not bothered to really program my User settings, even though I have had them for 3 camera bodies now. I should preset my watch macro settings as I do that often, but I also have them memorized well so not a priority. But for the April eclipse, I will be using the U settings. Very short...

Take Ginko Biloba! Of course you have to remember to take the Ginko to make it work... :D

The 2 photos presented cannot be compared like that. The question is really for a lab like imaging-resource.com to measure in a controlled setting. As presented here we have one image at f/8, 500mm and another shot at f/6.3, 600mm. For purely technical reasons, that puts the 600mm f/6.3 shot at...

2nd is only sharper due to having the cardinal having a "flatter" profile in the focus plane. And I can see the exif data anyhow so I can see why it has an advantage for being sharp front to rear above and beyond that.

I've been watching this thread as I worked today, waited to see the images on a larger screen to chime in. I don't actually think you have a problem with a soft image that is not sharp. You could use some more contrast and a little more black level value. I see good detail in things like bricks...

He was not offered enough for trade in when buying the Z8 so he wants what the retail store would try to charge.

A little fall color from 10-24-2023. Trying to be up-close and personal with the trees.

You can make a reasonable home-made filter. That solar film material in the cardboard glasses can be purchased in larger sheets on Amazon and other places. It can be cut and used to make multiple filters for different lenses. Save some scrap cardboard and a roll of duct tape to make them. Cut a...

Nice Bob. This was my view at peak (44%). No solar filter required. :cry:

.In 2020 I took photos of the AZ-GTi and the parts that convert it to equatorial tracking. Today I have it converted back to Alt-Azimuth configuration for solar eclipse (easier to polar align that way when no Polaris visible). But I have rain and all cloudy in my forecast October 14 so it looks...

I don't exactly use a star tracker. I have an Alt-azimuth goto mount, Skywatcher AZ-GTi. But Skywatcher has alternate equatorial mode firmware and there are tutorials out there on what equatorial wedge and counter-weights to buy to do the conversion. Skywatcher specifically warns it is not...

I have not taken it out of the home yet. I do have it set up full time at my studio as I said I would. I have an Arca clamp screwed on top of the quick release the head came with. So I use a quick release on a quick release to attach my camera. The head is physically larger than I expected and...

Manuals are now live on the website. (10-12-2023) BBF on the AE-L/AF-L works in the customary Nikon way. The ISO dial has a "C" position. Don't know what C stands for, but in that position the menu system sets the ISO value and rotating the dial then overrides that. So the way to Auto-ISO...

I believe the box will go to what it wants to focus on, assumption being it is focused when on your target. However I am doing my trial of BBF with a D750 and I just leave my Z5 mostly set to AF-A. My own experience being the auto selection works for me in most situations. But that is me.

From what I've researched, this is a prime reason why back-button focus is used by many. You take the autofocus activation off of the shutter and assign to the AF/AE lock button. Then leave camera in AF-C mode. Holding the button then tracks, but you can release the button to freeze the focus in...

I watched last night. He thinks it brings the autofocus performance close to Sony level but won't commit to that until testing more side by side.

Another image of the Sun. This time I experimented with using the infrared-converted D600. I was hoping it would show some surface detail if I worked the image right in post. I used Siril to stack over 150 Raw images to increase resolution and average out noise. We can barely see the surface...

Exactly. If you put it off too long you won't be able to do the update it would need. An example is a Coolpix S4000 I inherited from a brother. It had a firmware fix for a condition that prevented the camera from taking a charge when the battery was excessively discharged. Simple fix, but it...