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EXPERT INSIGHT

CONVERTED

CAMERAS

CHRIS uses a Canon EOS 70D

which he’s modded to make

sensitive to full spectrum light images and also a Canon EOS 500D

• converted to Infrared. Both capture more than the naked eye can
  see, making for astounding astro images. Both are APS-C DSLRs,
  so he benefits from the 1.6x crop factor, making lenses feel more
  zoomed in. Meaning it’s easier to get frame-filling shots of galaxies.

Lens Canon RF 24-105mm F4, L IS USM

Exposure 91 secs, f/4, ISO

COLINS COMMENT

My current setup

is a Canon EOS R

mirrorless camera paired with

a 24-105mm f/4 IS USM RF

lens. PhotoPlus were able

to get me access to the brand-new EOS Ra, a

version of the EOS R that’s much more sensitive

to light for astro work. I also used an RF 15-35mm

F2.8L IS USM lens, which is a much wider angle

lens and has a wider maximum aperture – handy

for sucking in all of the available light at night.

For our first setup we set up on Chris’s equatorial

tracker to get pin-sharp stars with a long shutter

speed of around 90 seconds. We illuminated the

abbey with the red light from my head torch to

make it stand out that little bit more.