I have this little lens already for 8 years or something, and have hardly used it even though it’s quite a decent lens. It gets good reviews and rightfully so. So after all these years it’s time to do a first test and see if this would be a good lens for astrophotography. Putting the Nikkor 50mm F1.8 AF-D to the test I tested the lens using a simple testchart to check the sharpness of…
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This lens first appealed to me most because of it’s speed and allround abilities; having F2.8 available at 24mm and being able to go to 85mm with F4 makes this a very usefull lens within this range. I’ve always been satisfied with this lens for day-time photography, but cleary preferred my 80-200mm F2.8 when shooting at the 80mm range. The 24-85mm AF-D is just not that sharp. In order to see whether this lens is…
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I’m a very happy user of the Lacerta MGEN autoguider and have been using it successfully for a year now. It is a great device that always works and gets me guiding very quickly. The MGEN can even be connected to your DSLR and has exposure control and dithering. Especially dithering is of course a great feature, as this will help a great deal to get smoother/cleaner images. However, until recently I was under the…
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