Canon sadly has terrible options for Astro when it comes to their native lenses. They for whatever reason continue to ignore the high end fast wide angle sector of the market. Give us an L lens in 14 or 20mm! Their cheap wide angle primes have terrible coma issues, and coatings not ideal for Astro.
@bimosunupoernomo7120Күн бұрын
No so give it to me!!!
@raytaylor30902 күн бұрын
Ive had owls flying towards me and AF has picked it up all the way. did you use +2 on the tracking, I only use +2 for flight shots coming towards me, the rest of the time +0
@michaelkokot63492 күн бұрын
Got some nice photos with a phone and cameras in Montana but my wife and kids were not impressed with what they saw with the naked eye. They all felt duped by all the photos because that is not what they saw with their own eyes. Basically, they thought it was just camera and photoshop magic and they are no longer impressed with all the nice Aurora photos you see online.
@BrentHall20 сағат бұрын
Oh nice, I'm glad you got some good shots! That's really unfortunate to hear your family wasn't impressed. I hope that perspective doesn't keep them from enjoying nature in the future, because the earth, physics, life, and the natural world really is quite incredible.
@hadynmcloughlin46613 күн бұрын
Nce to see a fellow Subaru buult on a reasonable budget and doing what you need and enjoying it. Nice work
@BrentHall20 сағат бұрын
Thanks man! Yeah, I'm just a struggling photographer trying to do the best I can with what I have to get out enjoy the world. 😊🚙🏕️
@Decoii3 күн бұрын
Would you recommend this G2 Lens or a Sigma 150-600 contemporary?
@BrentHall20 сағат бұрын
They're both pretty good budget options for dslrs. I haven't used either in more than a few years now though. If you're on a Canon mirrorless body though, I wouldn't recommend either because they just don't perform as well. I'd look at the RF 100-400 or 200-800.
@erikaleanne253 күн бұрын
I'd wager your shots would be better with no moon and a perfectly dark/clear sky
@BrentHall20 сағат бұрын
You'd be forgiven for think thinking that. It's a good line of logic; however in terms of overall image quality, it doesn't really matter that much when it comes to the phones. IMHO, the images I got in this video and all of my other phone astro videos over the years are a good representation of the upper limits of the image quality they can produce. I just feel like there's kind of a plateau or ceiling that the phones can and have hit for image quality due to physics and the restraints placed on them by their hardware. There's just only so much a tiny little sensor and lenses can do, you know? AI and software improvements have helped to make a pretty big jump for phone IQ, but I really feel like it's kind of peaking. Are these the best images ever from a phone, of course not, but I really don't think they could be that much better, even with perfect astro conditions, as I have been out quite a few times in such conditions with the phones. I'm still going to do a video about photographing the milky way with it here in the next new moon phase though.
@craigpiferphotography3 күн бұрын
I'm still wanting to try astro one of these days, but have never had a lens that I feel is truly adequate for it. The widest I have is an old Tamron 19-35, but I noticed in my aurora shots that it does have a bit of coma, even stopped down to f/4.
@masterprintmaker3 күн бұрын
4:23MIN I DON'T HEAR THE SHUTTER OR ARE YOU JUST FAKING IT ( TO FOOL THE BIRDS )
@Sudarshansridhar3 күн бұрын
I waited 2 years to buy s24 ultra . To buy freewell filters I need wait more because they are super costly.
@earlspiece94033 күн бұрын
I just got my S24 Ulta after my old cell phone blew up a couple weeks ago... Thank you for this in depth review as I will be able to follow along with mine and learn a thing or two I may never have without your vid!!! :)
@jonnomarshall3 күн бұрын
Hi Brent, i shoot sports with an original R6, but thinking of upgrading to either an R6II or an R5. I shoot 1000-2000 photos at any event i attend, so could end up with 3-400 keepers. I crop a lot, and find the resolution depth of the R5 appealing, but are the DNGs cumbersome to work with in Lightroom. My computer is a 2014 iMac Retina with 32GB RAM ,so how do you think would fair editing R5 images compared to R6II? I also think the extra resolution would serve as extra reach, effectively as i cant always get to the ideal shooting position. Thanks
@BrentHall3 күн бұрын
I don't use Lightroom so I couldn't say about any differences in editing the R5 vs R6 files, though I've never had any issues using bridge and camera raw or photoshop with the R5 files. You can put the R5 in cRaw, which is what I've had it set to for the past couple of years. There's no real discernable image quality drop at all, but get half the file sizes, so that might help you.
@7inrain3 күн бұрын
For my Sony A7R3 I have both the Sigma 16-28mm F2.8 and the Sigma 50mm F1.4. I like the latter a bit more because it is such a fast lens and you don't even have a hint of coma at F1.4. I guess that at one point I'm going to buy the Sigma 14mm F1.4. But that has to wait as I feel I already have too many lenses. 🙃
@stacyegan57194 күн бұрын
Very informative video, thank you! My biggest take-away at the moment is that it encourages me to try the f/4 lenses I already have (EF 17-40 & RF 24-105) with my Canon R8, at least to dip into trying wider field astro. I've been put off by the common recommendations of f/2.8 or faster, which I don't have in lenses wider than 50mm. The longer lenses I have might be kinda fun too, if I delve into stacking and tracking.
@BrentHall20 сағат бұрын
Yeah, definitely don't let f/4 stop you! Great images can still be had, and I use f4 for astro all the time. Staking and tracking, and most importantly, editing will help your images immensely.
@janinacooper41994 күн бұрын
Lol, the intensity! I can totally relate!
@jimbruton94824 күн бұрын
Very informative video Brent. I've dabbled a little bit with astrophotography. I don't have a tracker (yet) but was curious at F4 or F5.6, can you get a decent exposure without using a tracker? Also, have your tried the RF 100-500 (my favorite) with the tracker and R5?
@BrentHall20 сағат бұрын
If you have wider lenses, like 35mm or wider, then yeah you can certainly get decent exposures at f4. I do it all the time. You can increase the IQ further by taking multiple images and stacking them in post. No tracker needed to start. I have a few videos in my astro playlist where I do stacking with no tracking, I think even one at 100-200mm.
@Findoesphotography4 күн бұрын
Great video thank you for all the info. Im currently waiting on my Simga 18-35 1.8 It is EFs but I only have a crop sensor, however very sharp I cannot wait. 😁😁
@Findoesphotography4 күн бұрын
Also is that the Canon 1DC in the background?
@BrentHall20 сағат бұрын
Yes it is 😁
@tomsullivan29074 күн бұрын
Brent, great information. I have R5 body, lens wise I have EF 8-15mm F4, EF 24mm f1.4 Mk2, RF 24-105 f4, RF 15-35 f2.8, RF 24-70 f2.8, RF 100 f2.8 Macro and RF 70-200 f2.8. Thoughts about the best lens of the bunch based on your past usage? I have the adapter for EF to RF, not sure if that affects the photo. So I got that 2.8 I should stop down to maybe f4 to remove Coma. Use the screen and manually adjust the focus. Are you stacking one photo after another say popping off 15-20 frames, then stack? I see you can use the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer which appears to be for tracking for longer exposures? Asro is something I want to do, but haven't. Think about going out to the Everglades in S FL would be the closest to try and reduce some of the light issues, until my next vacation. Just want to start now and be ready for vacation in the fall. Thanks for the video and regarding the aurora, I didn't get any photos, but a friend took some so we could see it about 26.7 N here in S FL (crazy).
@BrentHall20 сағат бұрын
If you already have the 15-35 and 24-70, then out of those options, those 2 are the ones I'd personally use the most for astro. The RF 100 and 70-200 are also great for longer stuff, especially with a tracker.
@andreas_rr4 күн бұрын
Since you mentioned the Laowa 90mm F/2.8, i'd also add the RF 85mm F/2 as an affordable medium focal length. There's more than enough room to stop down, and i've done some great northern lights images with it. Plus it also doubles down for portraits and low-key macro. Overall a great lens considering the price. Just keep in mind that the AF basically is unuseable for video, so that's one field to avoid the lens. Asides from that, the 16mm is perfect considering the price. Put it on the R8 and you've probably got the cheapest still very powerfull combo for astrophotography.
@BrentHall19 сағат бұрын
Oh man, I can't believe I forgot that lens! I owned it for a couple of years and loved it for astro, stopped down a bit of course, but man it was a cool little lens, especially for the price. I think I have at least a couple of videos in my astro playlist where I use it for astro.
@andreas_rr19 сағат бұрын
@@BrentHall absolutely, the price of the 85 F/2 is a bargain. I got mine for 410€ new, including VAT and everything (roughly 445$). So far i've been very happy for the lens, and additionally to the price, the weigth and size is also very practical, considering the versatility it has (macro, portrait and very fast for a non-L lineup)
@BrentHall19 сағат бұрын
@@andreas_rr For sure! I used it for landscape an portraits a lot too. I miss having it. Might pick it up again someday.
@seb25494 күн бұрын
Great topic, was wondering about that, I kept the RF 24mm f1.8 just because of f1.8 giving me that room of shooting at f2.8 exactly to reduce the coma :). Denoising takes care of the rest at high ISO but I wish we had a wider better one and I had the RF 16mm but it was worse IMO than the 24mm.
@alejandrocampollo4 күн бұрын
Hey man i have a 16.5inch gaming laptop, so a bit ticker than normal laptops, i saw you have a gaming laptop, how does it fit? how many inches is that one?
@BrentHall4 күн бұрын
It definitely won't fit in the laptop sleeve on the rear access panel. It will fit in the front part, but there isn't much padding in that part.
@alejandrocampollo4 күн бұрын
@@BrentHall sorry I just checked it's a 15.6inch, GE 66 2022 laptop would it still fest on the rear access?
@BrentHall4 күн бұрын
@@alejandrocampollo probably not. Mine was an asus rog 15 inch and it was too thick, but my wife had another asus zephyrus 15 that was just a pinch thinner and it barely, and I mean barely fit with a lot of careful shoving in the back pannel.
@randellt4 күн бұрын
Great info as always! I had very good sucess with my Canon EF 70x200 1: 2.8 I think it's my favorite glass of all time.
@evemitchellanderson4 күн бұрын
For astro you should stick with ef lenses sigma 14mm 1.8 , 20mm or 24 1.4 , or the magic Canon 35mm II 1.4 Sigma 35 1.4 or Tamron 35 1.4
@BrentHall19 сағат бұрын
Yeah, those sigma lenses are pretty good for astro. I totally forgot that I also owned the tamron 35 and 45 for quite a few years, and I used them both a lot for astro as well.
@colintraveller4 күн бұрын
What is rarely to never done pic editing software comparisons ... Whilst the vast majority use Light room , I use Affinity2 .. I've yet to see anyone do such a comparison in terms of usability , costs
@DSOImager4 күн бұрын
Great video. I have the Rokinon 14mm myself.. but I have yet to try it out at a dark site. The AI noise reduction is amazing. I use it on all of my images. Speaking of AI.. there is an AI based deconvolution app out there call BlurXterminator. It can fix the coma impacted stars.. a truly amazing piece of software. It will only run on pixinsight though.. so total software costs will be high.. but worth it IMO for astro.
@julese77904 күн бұрын
RF 14-35 f4 is excellent for astro on a tracking mount/startracker ! RF16 f2.8 do great but on my Ra it precludes the use of a clip-in filter so it's bad... (kind of) EF35 F1.4 L mk 2 is a gem for astro ! Great video TY !
@Suprastar874 күн бұрын
I enjoy Moon photography and use a Sigma 150-600mm at 600mm with either a 1.4x or a 2x teleconverter.
@Sockeye4044 күн бұрын
I use my old Sigma EF 14mm f1.8 with adapter on my R5. I am still waiting for a 14mm f1.4 for RF 🙂
@douglasstemke24444 күн бұрын
I got a very affordable Canon 16mm f2.8 RF lens. Seems to be okay
@BrentHall19 сағат бұрын
Yeah, I had one for a while too. I did usually stop it down to f4 as well, and it gave me some decent images.
@BoReynolds4 күн бұрын
Tonight I'm gonna TRY my sigma 16mm on my M50-2 AND my 24-105 f4 on my R50. Poor people still have options...Ha! Great info Brent.
@eerofi4 күн бұрын
Thanks Brent! Do you have a video about making timelapses of auroras?
@BrentHall19 сағат бұрын
I have a video of the recent aurora that I barely managed to see and capture, and I did timelapses in it, and I think I talked about my settings, but I didn't show the full timelapse editing process, only the stills editing. I do have a few other timelapse videos though, that go over how I shoot and edit them.
@christianwetzel18624 күн бұрын
Thanks for your helpful suggestions! I was lucky to have bought the Samyang/Rokinon 14mm RF lens with autofocus, it's fantastic and I was able to catch some nice aurora pictures with it lately. Unfortunately it wasn't on the market for long due to their licensing litigations with Canon. They still offer the MF version for RF though, really affordable, and if one is using it mainly for astro anyway, manual focus should not be a an issue.
@BrentHall19 сағат бұрын
Yeah, I had that lens for a while and it was great for astro!
@bamhamer4 күн бұрын
the best rf lens for astro is an ef lens. sigma 14mm 1.8 which is pretty sad to see from a manufacturer like canon that they still dont have better options for astro
@nordic54904 күн бұрын
Do you shoot the milkyway under dark skies ? If so, you will need 10mm or up to 12mm if the MW is diagonal across the frame, to fit it in. I recommend the RF 10-20mm - coma is not visible @ f4. F4 is enough light for 25 or 20 seconds, and @ 10mm, star trails are not visible @ 25secs. Eg, My R5 + RF10mm @ f4 or f4.5 @ 25 or 30secs @ iso 5000 looks wondernfull. My RF15-35mm f2.8 can only be used in certain angles for the mw, as it is not wide enough. No, you do not need f1.8 @ 10mm due to longer exposures. My rf85mm f1.2 stopped down to f1.6 is also a superb astro lens.
@bamhamer4 күн бұрын
@@nordic5490 where can I see your milky way shots with the rf 10-20mm? At 10mm you should be able to even expose for as long as 50 seconds without visible star trails no? Can't you just make a panorama if you can't fit the milkyway in a single frame?
@spidersj124 күн бұрын
I have the Sigma 24mm F1.4 EF mount, and I use the control ring adapter for my EOS R and R5. Shooting the northern lights even out my back bedroom window to get near pinpoint stars with no streaking due to the earth's rotation, I shot it at F1.4 ISO 100 and 8 seconds. It's an awesome lens and inexpensive, it's not got image stabilization, but for astrophotography, who cares. The 400 or 500 rule helps figure out how long your exposure should be at your given focal length. For side landscape shots at sunset, shooting the Sigma 24mm at F1.4 and ISO 100 is also great because you can do bracketed shots with fast shutter speeds if let's say there is a lot of wind and you don't want that messing up your merged image of you use storage that auto merges your bracketed shots.
@dw.in.michigan4 күн бұрын
I have an Irix Firefly 15mm F2.4. It's not perfect, but it's very good, and the rectilinear distortion is very well controlled. I like it much better than the Samyang/Rokinon 14mm F2.8 manual. The manual 14mm seems more prone to good copy/bad copy coin toss - had a great one for Canon, but when I switched to Nikon, it was terrible, and many reviews mentioned the variability on quality as well. However, I've seen reviews on the newer ones that have AF, and they are very favorable. Otherwise, I've had very good luck with my Samyang primes, and I've found that I prefer the cine versions, except that they aren't chipped. Luckily, Nikon has the non-CPU lens feature that allows you to enter the basic exif data.
@robhamilton89934 күн бұрын
Great information. We are planning to do some wildlife & landscape & astrophotography this summer in Grand Canyon,Tetons & Yellowstone. Have a canon r6 mark2 with 24-105 mm lens. Would that one be good for astrophotography? Also taking a t8i with nifty 50 & 18-400 mm f3.5. Sound good for trip ?
@bamhamer4 күн бұрын
no. the 24-105 has an aperture of 4. for astro you should go for 2.8 or lower
@BrentHall19 сағат бұрын
The 24-105 will definitely get you some decent astro images. I used the ef version for a very long time, and shoot at f4 with many lenses, including my faster lenses. Don't ever not try something just because there's something out there that you don't have that could be better. Make the most of what you have. Learning how to stack and better edit astro images will also greatly increase your image quality potential, even with a slower lens. Like I said in the video, I shoot a ton of stuff at f4 and I dare anyone to tell me my images aren't good enough. I'm not saying they're the best, far from it, but IMHO they're quite good. Certainly good enough for youtube, social media, my website, prints, and all of my professional clients. Not one of my clients has EVER complained that my image wasn't good enough or should have been captured with a faster lens.
@robertcolby75884 күн бұрын
Have you had the chance to try the Tamron 30mm 1.4 ??
@BrentHall19 сағат бұрын
No I haven't, but that reminds me...I did own the tamron 35 and 45 for quite a long time and I used them both for astro a lot. They were pretty decent when stopped down a bit.
@marcmurison5 күн бұрын
Note: you can use autofocus on brighter stars. More accurate and reliable than manually focusing.
@boldonic5 күн бұрын
Knew most of this but thanks for the extra info!
@BrentHall19 сағат бұрын
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
@DirtyPlumbus6 күн бұрын
I wonder if the alterations to the raw file processing has to do with their A.I. editing options. It would be a shame if they ruined the capabilities of the camera for the chance to charge people for A.I. in 2025.
@user-gk5gk5ov7s6 күн бұрын
We were taking photos of it with the iPhone in Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦
@mw44027 күн бұрын
I have a Canon EOS R6, I can’t afford to upgrade and usually use it for reference photos for art, but I was wondering what would be the fastest SD card, I am still learning about photography and cameras
@BrentHall19 сағат бұрын
The fastest SD cards are 300mb/sec so I'd lok for that or as close to that as you can afford. Here's some of the ones I use for my R6II: howl.me/cmjnaALT7mL
@nejatkaskun22657 күн бұрын
thank you bro..
@davidfromdownunder8 күн бұрын
Great review 👏 I have one as well (yet to use in my travels but about to) With any luck version 2.0 will have singular push button deployant legs (EG Manfrotto Neotec) and a stainless or alloy centre ring with robust inner rotatiinal clips rather than the current flimsy plastic ones.
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Canon sadly has terrible options for Astro when it comes to their native lenses. They for whatever reason continue to ignore the high end fast wide angle sector of the market. Give us an L lens in 14 or 20mm! Their cheap wide angle primes have terrible coma issues, and coatings not ideal for Astro.
No so give it to me!!!
Ive had owls flying towards me and AF has picked it up all the way. did you use +2 on the tracking, I only use +2 for flight shots coming towards me, the rest of the time +0
Got some nice photos with a phone and cameras in Montana but my wife and kids were not impressed with what they saw with the naked eye. They all felt duped by all the photos because that is not what they saw with their own eyes. Basically, they thought it was just camera and photoshop magic and they are no longer impressed with all the nice Aurora photos you see online.
Oh nice, I'm glad you got some good shots! That's really unfortunate to hear your family wasn't impressed. I hope that perspective doesn't keep them from enjoying nature in the future, because the earth, physics, life, and the natural world really is quite incredible.
Nce to see a fellow Subaru buult on a reasonable budget and doing what you need and enjoying it. Nice work
Thanks man! Yeah, I'm just a struggling photographer trying to do the best I can with what I have to get out enjoy the world. 😊🚙🏕️
Would you recommend this G2 Lens or a Sigma 150-600 contemporary?
They're both pretty good budget options for dslrs. I haven't used either in more than a few years now though. If you're on a Canon mirrorless body though, I wouldn't recommend either because they just don't perform as well. I'd look at the RF 100-400 or 200-800.
I'd wager your shots would be better with no moon and a perfectly dark/clear sky
You'd be forgiven for think thinking that. It's a good line of logic; however in terms of overall image quality, it doesn't really matter that much when it comes to the phones. IMHO, the images I got in this video and all of my other phone astro videos over the years are a good representation of the upper limits of the image quality they can produce. I just feel like there's kind of a plateau or ceiling that the phones can and have hit for image quality due to physics and the restraints placed on them by their hardware. There's just only so much a tiny little sensor and lenses can do, you know? AI and software improvements have helped to make a pretty big jump for phone IQ, but I really feel like it's kind of peaking. Are these the best images ever from a phone, of course not, but I really don't think they could be that much better, even with perfect astro conditions, as I have been out quite a few times in such conditions with the phones. I'm still going to do a video about photographing the milky way with it here in the next new moon phase though.
I'm still wanting to try astro one of these days, but have never had a lens that I feel is truly adequate for it. The widest I have is an old Tamron 19-35, but I noticed in my aurora shots that it does have a bit of coma, even stopped down to f/4.
4:23MIN I DON'T HEAR THE SHUTTER OR ARE YOU JUST FAKING IT ( TO FOOL THE BIRDS )
I waited 2 years to buy s24 ultra . To buy freewell filters I need wait more because they are super costly.
I just got my S24 Ulta after my old cell phone blew up a couple weeks ago... Thank you for this in depth review as I will be able to follow along with mine and learn a thing or two I may never have without your vid!!! :)
Hi Brent, i shoot sports with an original R6, but thinking of upgrading to either an R6II or an R5. I shoot 1000-2000 photos at any event i attend, so could end up with 3-400 keepers. I crop a lot, and find the resolution depth of the R5 appealing, but are the DNGs cumbersome to work with in Lightroom. My computer is a 2014 iMac Retina with 32GB RAM ,so how do you think would fair editing R5 images compared to R6II? I also think the extra resolution would serve as extra reach, effectively as i cant always get to the ideal shooting position. Thanks
I don't use Lightroom so I couldn't say about any differences in editing the R5 vs R6 files, though I've never had any issues using bridge and camera raw or photoshop with the R5 files. You can put the R5 in cRaw, which is what I've had it set to for the past couple of years. There's no real discernable image quality drop at all, but get half the file sizes, so that might help you.
For my Sony A7R3 I have both the Sigma 16-28mm F2.8 and the Sigma 50mm F1.4. I like the latter a bit more because it is such a fast lens and you don't even have a hint of coma at F1.4. I guess that at one point I'm going to buy the Sigma 14mm F1.4. But that has to wait as I feel I already have too many lenses. 🙃
Very informative video, thank you! My biggest take-away at the moment is that it encourages me to try the f/4 lenses I already have (EF 17-40 & RF 24-105) with my Canon R8, at least to dip into trying wider field astro. I've been put off by the common recommendations of f/2.8 or faster, which I don't have in lenses wider than 50mm. The longer lenses I have might be kinda fun too, if I delve into stacking and tracking.
Yeah, definitely don't let f/4 stop you! Great images can still be had, and I use f4 for astro all the time. Staking and tracking, and most importantly, editing will help your images immensely.
Lol, the intensity! I can totally relate!
Very informative video Brent. I've dabbled a little bit with astrophotography. I don't have a tracker (yet) but was curious at F4 or F5.6, can you get a decent exposure without using a tracker? Also, have your tried the RF 100-500 (my favorite) with the tracker and R5?
If you have wider lenses, like 35mm or wider, then yeah you can certainly get decent exposures at f4. I do it all the time. You can increase the IQ further by taking multiple images and stacking them in post. No tracker needed to start. I have a few videos in my astro playlist where I do stacking with no tracking, I think even one at 100-200mm.
Great video thank you for all the info. Im currently waiting on my Simga 18-35 1.8 It is EFs but I only have a crop sensor, however very sharp I cannot wait. 😁😁
Also is that the Canon 1DC in the background?
Yes it is 😁
Brent, great information. I have R5 body, lens wise I have EF 8-15mm F4, EF 24mm f1.4 Mk2, RF 24-105 f4, RF 15-35 f2.8, RF 24-70 f2.8, RF 100 f2.8 Macro and RF 70-200 f2.8. Thoughts about the best lens of the bunch based on your past usage? I have the adapter for EF to RF, not sure if that affects the photo. So I got that 2.8 I should stop down to maybe f4 to remove Coma. Use the screen and manually adjust the focus. Are you stacking one photo after another say popping off 15-20 frames, then stack? I see you can use the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer which appears to be for tracking for longer exposures? Asro is something I want to do, but haven't. Think about going out to the Everglades in S FL would be the closest to try and reduce some of the light issues, until my next vacation. Just want to start now and be ready for vacation in the fall. Thanks for the video and regarding the aurora, I didn't get any photos, but a friend took some so we could see it about 26.7 N here in S FL (crazy).
If you already have the 15-35 and 24-70, then out of those options, those 2 are the ones I'd personally use the most for astro. The RF 100 and 70-200 are also great for longer stuff, especially with a tracker.
Since you mentioned the Laowa 90mm F/2.8, i'd also add the RF 85mm F/2 as an affordable medium focal length. There's more than enough room to stop down, and i've done some great northern lights images with it. Plus it also doubles down for portraits and low-key macro. Overall a great lens considering the price. Just keep in mind that the AF basically is unuseable for video, so that's one field to avoid the lens. Asides from that, the 16mm is perfect considering the price. Put it on the R8 and you've probably got the cheapest still very powerfull combo for astrophotography.
Oh man, I can't believe I forgot that lens! I owned it for a couple of years and loved it for astro, stopped down a bit of course, but man it was a cool little lens, especially for the price. I think I have at least a couple of videos in my astro playlist where I use it for astro.
@@BrentHall absolutely, the price of the 85 F/2 is a bargain. I got mine for 410€ new, including VAT and everything (roughly 445$). So far i've been very happy for the lens, and additionally to the price, the weigth and size is also very practical, considering the versatility it has (macro, portrait and very fast for a non-L lineup)
@@andreas_rr For sure! I used it for landscape an portraits a lot too. I miss having it. Might pick it up again someday.
Great topic, was wondering about that, I kept the RF 24mm f1.8 just because of f1.8 giving me that room of shooting at f2.8 exactly to reduce the coma :). Denoising takes care of the rest at high ISO but I wish we had a wider better one and I had the RF 16mm but it was worse IMO than the 24mm.
Hey man i have a 16.5inch gaming laptop, so a bit ticker than normal laptops, i saw you have a gaming laptop, how does it fit? how many inches is that one?
It definitely won't fit in the laptop sleeve on the rear access panel. It will fit in the front part, but there isn't much padding in that part.
@@BrentHall sorry I just checked it's a 15.6inch, GE 66 2022 laptop would it still fest on the rear access?
@@alejandrocampollo probably not. Mine was an asus rog 15 inch and it was too thick, but my wife had another asus zephyrus 15 that was just a pinch thinner and it barely, and I mean barely fit with a lot of careful shoving in the back pannel.
Great info as always! I had very good sucess with my Canon EF 70x200 1: 2.8 I think it's my favorite glass of all time.
For astro you should stick with ef lenses sigma 14mm 1.8 , 20mm or 24 1.4 , or the magic Canon 35mm II 1.4 Sigma 35 1.4 or Tamron 35 1.4
Yeah, those sigma lenses are pretty good for astro. I totally forgot that I also owned the tamron 35 and 45 for quite a few years, and I used them both a lot for astro as well.
What is rarely to never done pic editing software comparisons ... Whilst the vast majority use Light room , I use Affinity2 .. I've yet to see anyone do such a comparison in terms of usability , costs
Great video. I have the Rokinon 14mm myself.. but I have yet to try it out at a dark site. The AI noise reduction is amazing. I use it on all of my images. Speaking of AI.. there is an AI based deconvolution app out there call BlurXterminator. It can fix the coma impacted stars.. a truly amazing piece of software. It will only run on pixinsight though.. so total software costs will be high.. but worth it IMO for astro.
RF 14-35 f4 is excellent for astro on a tracking mount/startracker ! RF16 f2.8 do great but on my Ra it precludes the use of a clip-in filter so it's bad... (kind of) EF35 F1.4 L mk 2 is a gem for astro ! Great video TY !
I enjoy Moon photography and use a Sigma 150-600mm at 600mm with either a 1.4x or a 2x teleconverter.
I use my old Sigma EF 14mm f1.8 with adapter on my R5. I am still waiting for a 14mm f1.4 for RF 🙂
I got a very affordable Canon 16mm f2.8 RF lens. Seems to be okay
Yeah, I had one for a while too. I did usually stop it down to f4 as well, and it gave me some decent images.
Tonight I'm gonna TRY my sigma 16mm on my M50-2 AND my 24-105 f4 on my R50. Poor people still have options...Ha! Great info Brent.
Thanks Brent! Do you have a video about making timelapses of auroras?
I have a video of the recent aurora that I barely managed to see and capture, and I did timelapses in it, and I think I talked about my settings, but I didn't show the full timelapse editing process, only the stills editing. I do have a few other timelapse videos though, that go over how I shoot and edit them.
Thanks for your helpful suggestions! I was lucky to have bought the Samyang/Rokinon 14mm RF lens with autofocus, it's fantastic and I was able to catch some nice aurora pictures with it lately. Unfortunately it wasn't on the market for long due to their licensing litigations with Canon. They still offer the MF version for RF though, really affordable, and if one is using it mainly for astro anyway, manual focus should not be a an issue.
Yeah, I had that lens for a while and it was great for astro!
the best rf lens for astro is an ef lens. sigma 14mm 1.8 which is pretty sad to see from a manufacturer like canon that they still dont have better options for astro
Do you shoot the milkyway under dark skies ? If so, you will need 10mm or up to 12mm if the MW is diagonal across the frame, to fit it in. I recommend the RF 10-20mm - coma is not visible @ f4. F4 is enough light for 25 or 20 seconds, and @ 10mm, star trails are not visible @ 25secs. Eg, My R5 + RF10mm @ f4 or f4.5 @ 25 or 30secs @ iso 5000 looks wondernfull. My RF15-35mm f2.8 can only be used in certain angles for the mw, as it is not wide enough. No, you do not need f1.8 @ 10mm due to longer exposures. My rf85mm f1.2 stopped down to f1.6 is also a superb astro lens.
@@nordic5490 where can I see your milky way shots with the rf 10-20mm? At 10mm you should be able to even expose for as long as 50 seconds without visible star trails no? Can't you just make a panorama if you can't fit the milkyway in a single frame?
I have the Sigma 24mm F1.4 EF mount, and I use the control ring adapter for my EOS R and R5. Shooting the northern lights even out my back bedroom window to get near pinpoint stars with no streaking due to the earth's rotation, I shot it at F1.4 ISO 100 and 8 seconds. It's an awesome lens and inexpensive, it's not got image stabilization, but for astrophotography, who cares. The 400 or 500 rule helps figure out how long your exposure should be at your given focal length. For side landscape shots at sunset, shooting the Sigma 24mm at F1.4 and ISO 100 is also great because you can do bracketed shots with fast shutter speeds if let's say there is a lot of wind and you don't want that messing up your merged image of you use storage that auto merges your bracketed shots.
I have an Irix Firefly 15mm F2.4. It's not perfect, but it's very good, and the rectilinear distortion is very well controlled. I like it much better than the Samyang/Rokinon 14mm F2.8 manual. The manual 14mm seems more prone to good copy/bad copy coin toss - had a great one for Canon, but when I switched to Nikon, it was terrible, and many reviews mentioned the variability on quality as well. However, I've seen reviews on the newer ones that have AF, and they are very favorable. Otherwise, I've had very good luck with my Samyang primes, and I've found that I prefer the cine versions, except that they aren't chipped. Luckily, Nikon has the non-CPU lens feature that allows you to enter the basic exif data.
Great information. We are planning to do some wildlife & landscape & astrophotography this summer in Grand Canyon,Tetons & Yellowstone. Have a canon r6 mark2 with 24-105 mm lens. Would that one be good for astrophotography? Also taking a t8i with nifty 50 & 18-400 mm f3.5. Sound good for trip ?
no. the 24-105 has an aperture of 4. for astro you should go for 2.8 or lower
The 24-105 will definitely get you some decent astro images. I used the ef version for a very long time, and shoot at f4 with many lenses, including my faster lenses. Don't ever not try something just because there's something out there that you don't have that could be better. Make the most of what you have. Learning how to stack and better edit astro images will also greatly increase your image quality potential, even with a slower lens. Like I said in the video, I shoot a ton of stuff at f4 and I dare anyone to tell me my images aren't good enough. I'm not saying they're the best, far from it, but IMHO they're quite good. Certainly good enough for youtube, social media, my website, prints, and all of my professional clients. Not one of my clients has EVER complained that my image wasn't good enough or should have been captured with a faster lens.
Have you had the chance to try the Tamron 30mm 1.4 ??
No I haven't, but that reminds me...I did own the tamron 35 and 45 for quite a long time and I used them both for astro a lot. They were pretty decent when stopped down a bit.
Note: you can use autofocus on brighter stars. More accurate and reliable than manually focusing.
Knew most of this but thanks for the extra info!
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
I wonder if the alterations to the raw file processing has to do with their A.I. editing options. It would be a shame if they ruined the capabilities of the camera for the chance to charge people for A.I. in 2025.
We were taking photos of it with the iPhone in Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦
I have a Canon EOS R6, I can’t afford to upgrade and usually use it for reference photos for art, but I was wondering what would be the fastest SD card, I am still learning about photography and cameras
The fastest SD cards are 300mb/sec so I'd lok for that or as close to that as you can afford. Here's some of the ones I use for my R6II: howl.me/cmjnaALT7mL
thank you bro..
Great review 👏 I have one as well (yet to use in my travels but about to) With any luck version 2.0 will have singular push button deployant legs (EG Manfrotto Neotec) and a stainless or alloy centre ring with robust inner rotatiinal clips rather than the current flimsy plastic ones.
What app do you use for tracking the Lighting