I have a reasonably good mirror telescope and can borrow my friends' lens-based telescopes. Are there any adaptors I could use to get these lenses to work using EF and MF?
1200mm f/5.6 L eat your heart out!
motoroller Senior Member 474 posts Likes: 1 Joined Jul 2008 Location: Near London More info | Apr 23, 2009 16:21 | #1 I have a reasonably good mirror telescope and can borrow my friends' lens-based telescopes. Are there any adaptors I could use to get these lenses to work using EF and MF? Current: 5d III | 1Ds3 | 5d II gripped | 40d | 17-40L | 24-105L | 50mm f/1.4 | 100 f/2 | 70-200L f/2.8 | 430EX |
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PM01 Goldmember 1,188 posts Joined Dec 2007 Location: USA! More info | Apr 23, 2009 16:30 | #2 T-ring to 2 inch visual back. PFCT or AP16T from Astro Physics works quite well.
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nureality Goldmember 3,611 posts Likes: 1 Joined Jan 2008 More info | Apr 24, 2009 00:32 | #3 I've tried my 40D (and most of the rest of my cameras over the years) with my Meade ETX 90. Its the first generation model, and it takes a T-mount + body mount adaptors. It works pretty well. But, my motor on my ETX 90 died and I need to take it in for repairs... Also, modern bodies are much heavier than film backs, make sure you strip it down for weight... I took off my grip and it still was weighing the telescope down, so I need to find some kind of support brace to mate the body to the field tripod. Alan "NuReality" Fronshtein
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