Best Lens for Canon 5DmkIII

Hi,

I am looking into trying some of this Astro photography with a camera.

I was thinking about getting the iOptron Skyguider as a mount (know nothing about these things but from what I have read this should be good for doing exposures?)

I currently have the lens listed in my sig. From what I have read a wide angle seems to be preferred for this sort of shooting. Can anyone recommend which lens would be the best to use when starting out in this.

Thanks

You should buy my 24mm f/1.4 mkI, so that I can buy the mkII.

ozzmodan wrote in post #16933831
You should buy my 24mm f/1.4 mkI, so that I can buy the mkII.

Ouch! $1500, but I guess I would be using it for a lot more purposes. Thanks for the reply. Hopefully I can get a cheaper option, although......

General_T wrote in post #16933826
Hi,

I am looking into trying some of this Astro photography with a camera.

I was thinking about getting the iOptron Skyguider as a mount (know nothing about these things but from what I have read this should be good for doing exposures?)

I currently have the lens listed in my sig. From what I have read a wide angle seems to be preferred for this sort of shooting. Can anyone recommend which lens would be the best to use when starting out in this.

Thanks

The Rokinon lens are very popular with astro photographers and you can find many on this forum who use them, they are a very good lens at a reasonable price. WEBSITE

the jimmy wrote in post #16934419
The Rokinon lens are very popular with astro photographers and you can find many on this forum who use them, they are a very good lens at a reasonable price. WEBSITE

Thanks,

I have come across the name and will look into them.

Cheers

I use Rokinon 14mm & Zeiss 21mm for night photography with great results.

I just picked up the Tokina 16-28 f2.8 which has been amazing for shooting at night. I've played around with a friend's rokinon 14mm and it is sharp, but I like the tokina better. the 16-28 is very sharp and has little distortion at 16mm.

Here's a shot from this past week with the 6d/tokina 16-28. It's a little noisy but I didn't spend much time processing this one, not my favorite composition from that night but you get the idea

Proper_propaganda wrote in post #16945451
I just picked up the Tokina 16-28 f2.8 which has been amazing for shooting at night. I've played around with a friend's rokinon 14mm and it is sharp, but I like the tokina better. the 16-28 is very sharp and has little distortion at 16mm.

Here's a shot from this past week with the 6d/tokina 16-28. It's a little noisy but I didn't spend much time processing this one, not my favorite composition from that night but you get the idea

Very Nice work, am looking into the Rokinon.

Thanks

General_T wrote in post #16933826
Hi,

I am looking into trying some of this Astro photography with a camera.

I was thinking about getting the iOptron Skyguider as a mount (know nothing about these things but from what I have read this should be good for doing exposures?)

I currently have the lens listed in my sig. From what I have read a wide angle seems to be preferred for this sort of shooting. Can anyone recommend which lens would be the best to use when starting out in this.

Thanks

Heya,

Samynag 24mm F1.4. Seriously. It's $500, and better than the 24L for astro. Less coma. Sharper. It's just an incredible wide field astro lens for full frame. You don't even need a tracker with it. But if you do get a tracker, the iOptron will let you do incredible exposures with minimal ISO's, so that you don't have to do as much post clean up. Or you can combine tracking and ISO for burst exposures to do a lot of really huge light gathers in short periods of time. Like 2 minute exposures at ISO 1600 for example, it would look super clean.

Look at NCHANT's work with the Samyang 24mm F1.4, you will be sold. He specifically has a thread that compares the 24L to the Samyang and the Samyang takes it pretty handedly.

With the saved cash, get a Rokinon 14mm F2.8 to compliment as an ultrawide. Trust me you'll want both. I shoot at these equivalent focal lengths and I often am either at one end or the other of ultrawide and wide for milky way and other wide field astro. I'm sure you've possibly seen my iOptron thread so you know what it looks like.

Very best,