Love Venice and welcome back Roberto !
(We visited in February, crisp blue sky days, fewer tourists.)
This thread is forgetting it's manners in Curtis's absence.
Some of you may have heard about the "Christmas Comet" that is showing in the night sky. It is Comet 45P/Wirtanen and is making its closest approach to Earth in 20 years. It is currently hanging out near the Pleiades star cluster and unless you have extremely dark skies it is very hard to see with the naked eye. You may be able to see a faint fuzzy green dot with binoculars.
Tonight is the first night in well over a week that I have had clear skies at night and even though I had no opportunity to travel to a dark sky site, I wanted to see what I could do locally.
Below is a best effort with the time I had and with very poor conditions. A lot of sky glow from Durham and Raleigh to the east and Waxing Gibbous moon already well overhead. I hope to have an opportunity to give it another shot with dark skies in Virginia on Christmas night.
The first post is the full frame from tonight. Shot with the Noct-NIKKOR 58mm on the Z6. Tripod mounted, 10 sec timer, silent mode. ISO 800, 5.0 sec, f/2. I added the text overlay to help point out the proximity. Hard to see at this posted size. Even caught a satellite going by in the upper part of the image.
The second post is a crop of the first one to show the little green glow.
This was just a test for me and thought I would post my results.
Going to more subtle themes, a soft late sunset at Solana Beach. 135mm 2.0, so easy to use on the Z6. I am beginning to wonder about the utility of my DSLRs and the value of all my SLR lenses.........
rafaelcasd wrote:
Going to more subtle themes, a soft late sunset at Solana Beach. 135mm 2.0, so easy to use on the Z6. I am beginning to wonder about the utility of my DSLRs and the value of all my SLR lenses.........
Outstanding shots Rafael. Have not had the opportunity or landscape to do a lot of testing with mine yet, but since I am now on vacation that will change. Weather cooperating for a few days. I hope... I am going by my local camera shop this week to do some testing with the 50mm/1.8 Z S. They are getting some in tomorrow or Tuesday. After reading the CameraLabs report comparing it to the Zeiss Otus 55, I wanted to see for myself ($600 vs $4000). Want to see how it compares to the legacy glass. I am still fortunate to have a local place that treats customers as customers
rafaelcasd wrote:
Going to more subtle themes, a soft late sunset at Solana Beach. 135mm 2.0, so easy to use on the Z6. I am beginning to wonder about the utility of my DSLRs and the value of all my SLR lenses.........
gbohannon wrote:
Some of you may have heard about the "Christmas Comet" that is showing in the night sky. It is Comet 45P/Wirtanen and is making its closest approach to Earth in 20 years. It is currently hanging out near the Pleiades star cluster and unless you have extremely dark skies it is very hard to see with the naked eye. You may be able to see a faint fuzzy green dot with binoculars.
Tonight is the first night in well over a week that I have had clear skies at night and even though I had no opportunity to travel to a dark sky site, I wanted to see what I could do locally.
Below is a best effort with the time I had and with very poor conditions. A lot of sky glow from Durham and Raleigh to the east and Waxing Gibbous moon already well overhead. I hope to have an opportunity to give it another shot with dark skies in Virginia on Christmas night.
The first post is the full frame from tonight. Shot with the Noct-NIKKOR 58mm on the Z6. Tripod mounted, 10 sec timer, silent mode. ISO 800, 5.0 sec, f/2. I added the text overlay to help point out the proximity. Hard to see at this posted size. Even caught a satellite going by in the upper part of the image.
The second post is a crop of the first one to show the little green glow.
This was just a test for me and thought I would post my results.
Were you able to clearly view Pleiades/comet via the Z6's EVF or LCD?
If the weather plays fair (not looking good) then I'll pull out my telescope and take a look.
Were you able to clearly view Pleiades/comet via the Z6's EVF or LCD?
If the weather plays fair (not looking good) then I'll pull out my telescope and take a look.
Colin
Yes. I could view Pleiades easily in the EVF viewfinder and tilting LCD. 100% zoom made it easy to focus. I did turn off focus peaking because the peaking highlights were bigger than the stars
I was not able to see the comet in the EVF/LCD. But did see it when reviewing the shot right after. Took a few test shots to align correctly.
Going to try again at a darker location and higher ISO. Any higher last night and I was getting too much light from the nearby cities and moon.
You should be able to see it easily in the telescope. Just look for a faint green fuzzy glow. Start out with a lower magnification wide view eyepiece.
Hello all! We are back from two great weeks away, the first on the Gulf of Mexico ay Long Boat Key and the second at Satellite Beach on the Atlantic. Both weeks were cold and rainy but the best news was that in the middle of the two I picked up the Z6.
I took three lenses the NOCT, the 35-200 which I really like for its versatility and the 18mm. I used the 35-200 on the Z6 in Dx mode and it has a great reach with very nice results thanks to the stabilization,
Ken Hill wrote:
Hello all! We are back from two great weeks away, the first on the Gulf of Mexico ay Long Boat Key and the second at Satellite Beach on the Atlantic. Both weeks were cold and rainy but the best news was that in the middle of the two I picked up the Z6.
I took three lenses the NOCT, the 35-200 which I really like for its versatility and the 18mm. I used the 35-200 on the Z6 in Dx mode and it has a great reach with very nice results thanks to the stabilization,
Great to see you got the Z6 Ken! Nice little camera for focusing isn't it?
Not sure if you saw one of my other posts but when using the 35-200 and having image stabilization turned on make sure you enter the focal length you will be shooting at in the Lens Data in the camera. It does impact stabilization. So if you know you are going to be shooting it at 200mm, enter 200mm in the data section.
gbohannon wrote:
Great to see you got the Z6 Ken! Nice little camera for focusing isn't it?
Not sure if you saw one of my other posts but when using the 35-200 and having image stabilization turned on make sure you enter the focal length you will be shooting at in the Lens Data in the camera. It does impact stabilization. So if you know you are going to be shooting it at 200mm, enter 200mm in the data section.
G
I read and took your advice George. Further in using the image zoom set to 100% on the F2 button you cannot go wrong either which is a PLUS. Focus Peaking is here to stay! Here is a shot of one of the surfers before cropping as seen in the second surfer on my original post.
There are some places that do look convex 
