Season of Touit - Picture 16 Week 40, Saturday - Inspiration and gear
"I’ve always been inspired by the high quality gear (at pretty rare occasions when I have had a possibility to use such) and Zeiss Touit 2.8/12 & Touit 2.8/50M are no different in this regard. Feeling that there are no optical obstacles regarding image quality can certainly be a source of inspiration that makes you work harder with your photography. I don’t want to say you need expensive equipment for better photographs, but my point is perhaps easier to understand if I turn it upside down. Take any point & shoot compact camera from yesteryear with their ‘cheap silver-plastic aesthetics’ and you will immediately see how such a gear can lower your inspiration because [...]"
With my previous cameras, I have always used camera settings and/or an intervalometer to shoot astrophotography.
Hope I'm not breaking into anyone's thread, but couldn't find an appropriate forum other than this one to ask my question.
My question(s) are:- what are the differences between the Time Lapse App and the Star Trails App. The way I am reading the description they do basically the same thing. Am I wrong.
I shoot RAW images when shooting Star Trails for more control over the PP . The description says that the images are done in camera and produce a movie. I want the ability to import the 100+ images into my computer and then work on them (I use StarStax) (manipulating WB; cloning out intrusive airplanes, etc).
Any answers/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
The Star Trails app produces a particular kind of time lapse movie. It's meant for people who don't want to work from RAW or JPEG files in post or with tools like StarStax.
If you want to keep doing things the way you're doing, with the creative control that comes with it, you want the Time Lapse app.
yes you're right they basically do the same thing -in the star trails settings you can chnage output form movie to stills -the timelapse app will do the same for you [except you will have to manually stitch the images in the timelapse app]
Season of Touit - Picture 17 Week 41, Wednesday - Being and time
"I’ve been using the Zeiss Touit 2.8/50M in different scenarios and while it is a lens with great versatility, it is also difficult to come up with right kind of pictures that demonstrates its marvelous macro capabilities and still be interesting enough from photography’s point of view. To demonstrate these macro capabilities I wanted to do at least one picture at minimum focusing distance just to have a concrete example how close one can get with 2.8/50M and what kind of magnification does it offer. [...]"
After a long, long time without publishing in this thread, I've been digging on my archive. Here's one photo with the kit lens (18-55) and the Sony NEX-5N
Season of Touit - Picture 18 Week 41, Saturday - A Play in a Dark
"Learning photography is related to many things like understanding its technical aspects, developing your eye for better images, getting your work out there, etc. One of those things is learning to get good image quality. This is true especially from the technical point of view because no one starts with five star gear and in some point everyone needs to reconsider if they feel themselves satisfied with gear they are using at the moment - and because of this one might end up searching quite a long time for that 'perfect' camera or lens, which obviously doesn't exist. In some ways, working with Zeiss lenses is some sort of remedy to that kind of search [...]"
