ideas for a good dx camera that takes amazing night shots

any ideas? not over 1000 $

Any of the cameras sold on the market. Amazing night shots just requires an amazing night photographer.

charlie15 wrote in post #17634628
any ideas? not over 1000 $

Heya,

Need more information.

Night shots of... ? Handheld of moving objects? Static scenes? Night sky? Astro?

Very best,

Night sky, astro, not much moving objects

charlie15 wrote in post #17637285
Night sky, astro, not much moving objects

Heya,

Get a refurb Canon 6D, or hunt a used Sony A7 series. You can find the 6D and some models of the A7x series around $1k.

You need a wide, fast aperture lens too. The Rokinon 14mm F2.8 is a commonly used one for this.

The key to good night shots like you're talking about from this gear, is going to be met by a few limitations. Exposure time without motion blur will be limited by focal length. Exposure itself will be limited by aperture and ISO. So faster aperture gets more light. Higher ISO performance gets more light and stays cleaner.

Alternatively, if you get an inexpensive tracker (iOptron for example), you can use any camera and any lens and get really good and clean shots from using long exposure without a limitation on focal length (well, within reason) and you're no longer totally limited by aperture & ISO.

Very best,

I have no experiance of the camera, or astro type shooting, but would not the EOS 60Da be worth looking at? Canon after all put the "a" at the end of the name for astronmical .

Alan

charlie15 wrote in post #17637285
Night sky, astro, not much moving objects

Curious way to put that! Most things in the night sky are passing by at about 1,000 miles per hour. The speed of the earth's rotation on its axis. The entire Milky Way is spinning at somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 miles per second. On top of all that, everything in the night sky is receding from everything else in the night sky. Recession speeds for some of those objects approach the speed of light.

From our measly perspective, not much is moving though.