djpaul Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Hi Im am in the process of buying a camera mainly for pictures of the moon ( Not deep Sky Imaging ) Looking to get either a secondhand Canon 600d or 700d I was considering buying from the Camera Jungle secondhand photographic site. Anyone here ever bought from them. They seem to have Canon 700d's for £279- 2£99 with very low shutter counts ( 5,000 - 10,000 ) Knowing nothing at all about camera's I would value your opinions on what camera i should buy. My budget would be £300-£350 Regards Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philjay Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 With the 120ED both those would work fine. The image will not fill the frame though so there will be alot of black space around the disc. So if your after full discs then they are fine, barlowing to get closer in works but can be tricky. I have used APSC, Full Frame and Mirrorless CSC cameras on lunar as well as planetary cameras and at the moment my favourite is the Olympus OM D range of cameras. These have a 4/3rds sesonsor and my EM1 Mk1.5 and EM10 MK1 the full moon through my F7.5 127 refractor fills the frame wonderfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpaul Posted February 5, 2018 Author Share Posted February 5, 2018 Hi What makes things tricky with say a Televue powermate? Sorry as i said im new to photography Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ibbo Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Focusing it esp if the seeing is a bit unsteady. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 I have a Nikon D3200 and it works great on the Moon. The key is to use a low ISO and exposures from 1/200 to 1/2000, depending on the phase. I suspect that cameras in the price range £250-£350 deliver very similar results to each other. The key is to take loads of frames (50 to 200) and stack them. I've used Barlow lenses and used more than one in parallel but I've found that webcams deliver the best results for lunar close-ups. With an ED you should not get much chromatic aberration but, if you do, remove the red and blue from the image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpaul Posted February 5, 2018 Author Share Posted February 5, 2018 what about this as an option Nikon D3400? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philjay Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 All the cameras you mention will work fine. With digitsl technology you can take photos of the moon with just about any camera, folks are turning out decent images with camera phones. It boils down to what you want to photograph, if you just want to do full discs then any dslr, csc mirrorless will work, if you want to go deeper then a dslr with barlow can be used but as stated previously it can be tricky. If you want close up shots of specific craters etc then a ccd planetary camera is the tool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpaul Posted February 6, 2018 Author Share Posted February 6, 2018 Hi Ended up getting a Nikon D3400 today Special offer at Currys / PC world £359 including the standard lens Need to get a t ring adaptor etc Any suggestions where to buy required adaptor Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Bino-viewer Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Try these..... https://www.tringastro.co.uk/revelation-universal-2-t-adapter-12830-p.asp https://www.tringastro.co.uk/opticron-nikon-t-mount--t-ring-2804-p.asp Just give them a call first to make sure its the right one for your particular camera combination Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 On 06/02/2018 at 18:04, djpaul said: Hi Ended up getting a Nikon D3400 today Special offer at Currys / PC world £359 including the standard lens Need to get a t ring adaptor etc Any suggestions where to buy required adaptor Paul How is it going? I guess the weather isn't helping but tomorrow should be good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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