A fully starry night is a bit rare here what with winter rain and summer fog, but last night we were blessed with a fabulous night sky. Looks to me as if I needed a slightly shorter shutter speed so that I didn't get the beginnings of star trails. The bright yellow light isn't a moon set but a crab boat lit up in the ocean. I kind of liked the contrast to the white stars.
Thanks so much for all of your views, comments, suggestions, favs around my Hawaii pictures
@mwbc I totally adore it. It was a steep learning curve at first and I found a nikonian class really helpful. It also eats up a lot of room on the computer with its high resolution shots and I had to upgrade LR to #4 because 3 wouldn't work. But I wouldn't go back! Only thing that I don't love about it is the slow buffering for taking bird shots using burst mode
@cameronknowlton Yes. The people at the camera shop said it was fine to use the dx lenses on fx just disappointing. I use most of my d5100 lenses but also have full sensor ones
Jane, using your DX lenses on your FX body, you'll end up with a 16MP image, which is nothing to sneeze at. (36mp * crop factor * crop factor, crop factor=0.6667). On my 24mp D600, dropping to 10.3mp isn't acceptable.
Nothing beats going back to a proper full frame wide angle. I'm absolutely loving my Nikkor 16-35mm f/4, I'd recommend it.
@cameronknowlton Thanks for the explanation. I do have a Tokina 17-35, F4 which is a FX and it flat so I can put filters on it, but my sense is that it's not as good glass as my nikkor
@colosimo Yes, that's my lens. And thank you so much for your liking this shot. I pulled out my notes from your previous help. I'm thinking maybe a slightly shorter shutter and I wouldn't have gotten the sloppy stars
@jgpittenger From the looks of it I'd say you might just need to tinker with getting the infinity focus point a little more precise. It's definitely close though. Well done :)
@jgpittenger up the ISO and aperture to let in the most light, then put it in live view mode (may be called something different on Nikon - basically so it displays the image on the LCD). Then point it at a bright star or planet, zoom in as much as it will let you, then manually adjust the focus until it makes the smallest dot. That's generally the best way to do it.
Nothing beats going back to a proper full frame wide angle. I'm absolutely loving my Nikkor 16-35mm f/4, I'd recommend it.
are you saying you used this lens: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/520635-USA/Nikon_2163_AF_S_Zoom_Nikkor_14_24mm.html
if so I can assure you that's the best lens anywhere on the market for this kind of shot, including Canon, Nikon or otherwise.
fav.