Curiosity, Night Gazing & Visual Explorations

Few months ago, following my heart, and a little intuition, I started taking pictures… Here are some of my recent pics !  Enjoy !

Part of the pleasure is to handle some technical gear. I’m a geek since several decades… here is my current setup :

Bodies

I’m currently on Sony cameras. I own a Sony A7R, and a A6100. 

Lenses

• Sony FE 24-240mm F3.5-6.3 OSS (SEL24240) – Very nice all-rounder when you are limited in weight. 
• Tamron 17-28mm 2.8 Sony FE – Great quality wide lens with wide aperture ! 
• Irix 15mm F2.4 Firefly Canon + Sigma MC-11 – great lens with an Astro touch.
• TTArtisan Objectif fisheye F2.8 11 mm Sony FE – cheap and still good fisheye.
• Samyang 12 mm F2.8 Fisheye Sony FE – cheap and still good fisheye, still comparing with the previous one. 
• Sigma 100-400 F5-6.3 DG DN OS Contemporary Lens Sony FE – great Sony FE zoom. 
• Tamron sp 150 – 600 f/5 – 6.3 Di usd g2 Sony A-Mount + Sony LA-EA3 adapter – I am pushing to the limit of a telezoom, for capturing planets as Jupiter, and Saturn, on the Sony A6100 (ASP-C), with the 2X Teleconverter. I even tried with both teleconverter, pushing it to 2520 mm FF equivalent (600 mm x 1.5 (Asp-c) x 2.0 x 1.4). 
• Sony E 55-210 mm F 4,5-6,3 OSS (SEL55210) – the classic super portable zoom for Sony E)
• Teleconverters
  • Tamron F AF TeleConverter Lens 1.4 Mx-AF MC4
  • Kenko 2X Teleplus 7 AF Extender

Filters

• Rollei Astroklar Light Pollution
• Urth x Gobe 67 mm ND variable filter ND2-400
• Aurora-Aperture Adapter Mount Format PowerDusk Filter for Sigma MC-11 

Tripods

• Benro Carbon Travel Tripod
• K&F S210 Aluminium Tripod
• Cayer BV30L 72 inch + Fluid head K3

Software for Astrophotography

• PIPP
• Autostakkert
• Lightroom & Photoshop

Essential Tools

• photopills.com
• lightpollutionmap.info
• darksitefinder.com
• cleardarksky.com