Is the Milky Way Visible with a New Wide-Angle Lens in Sydney's Night Sky?

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The discussion centers on a user's experience photographing the Milky Way with a Samyang 14mm ultra wide-angle lens using a Canon 5D Mk3 in Sydney. The user traveled 40 minutes south of the city to escape light pollution, capturing a stunning image at 3200 ISO, f2.8, with a 20-second exposure. The lens was praised for its excellent color rendition and minimal aberration compared to a Canon EF 50mm f1.4. The image was confirmed to be a single exposure, not stacked. Overall, the thread highlights the effectiveness of the lens for astrophotography in urban areas.
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finally got a chance to get out and try out my relatively new Samyang 14mm ultra wide angle lens

this is using the Canon 5D Mk3, 3200 ISO, 14mm f/l, f2.8, 20 sec exp. The view is to the SW
I traveled for about 40 minutes to get south of Sydney and away from the main city lights and their skyglow

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cheers
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Great picture Dave. I always get a little envious when I see sky pictures like this. :smile:
 
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Thanks mate :)
OK over last 30 mins or so just been annotating that image to point out a few things to help people with orientation

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I'm quite impressed with this Samyang 14mm lens, it produces a nice colour rendition and with
very little aberration, colour or spherical around the edges of the image. Cant say the same for the my Canon EF 50mm f1.4 ... the spherical aberration around the edges was quite badDave
 
Nice pic, Dave. Thanks for posting.
 
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Nice. How long was the exposure?
 
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tfr000 said:
Nice. How long was the exposure?

ohhh sorry for that ... didn't notice that I hadn't added it, its there now ... 20 sec :smile:
any longer and I would have started to get star trailing
 
Fantastic image!
 
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stacked or single exposure?
 
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stacked or single exposure?

single 20 sec exp :smile:
 
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