RE: [APML] OT: Question for Canon 10D owners

["Dave Dockery" <dave.dockery@zianet.com>]

Hi Stuart,

I just got a 300D and had one night to run a quick test before my wife and
kids made me put it away for Christmas  (it's my big present this year.)  I
set up the camera and my TV85 on a (roughly) polar aligned CG-5 and took a
series of two minute shots of M45.  This was just intended to check the
noise and sensitivity to reflection nebula so forgive the tracking.  I did
shoot several darks and used ImagesPlus for dark subtraction and image
stacking.  Also keep in mind that this was shot from my backyard in Las
Cruces with no LP filtering.  I compare the image to a recent Supra 400 shot
taken under dark skies at one of the nearby state parks.  It's by no means a
carefully controlled comparison but I did try to avoid doing much processing
other than to try and match the background rgb levels of the images.

See: http://www.zianet.com/dave.dockery/m45comparison.jpg

I'm very impressed with the Rebel and FWIW I think it's going to be a great
astro camera.
Dave




> -----Original Message-----
> From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org
> [mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org]On Behalf Of Stuart Heggie
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 6:13 AM
> To: Discussion of FilmAstrophotography
> Subject: [APML] OT: Question for Canon 10D owners
>
>
> Did the decision to buy the 10D factor in this new Digital Rebel that is
> about 2/3rds the price? Is there something about the Rebel that would
> preclude using for astro? I am going to add a digital camera to my
> collection and since my older manual focus Nikkors won't talk to a Nikon
> digital SLR I'm open to the best value by any brand. My current copy of
> PHOTOGraphic magazine says the Digital Rebel is the best value available
> today. It also highlights differences between the Rebel and the
> 10D none of
> which seem to me to be things I'd use so why pay for them?
>
> Sorry for the long question - thoughts?
> Stuart
>



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