Canon 10D

I bought a canon 10D not to long ago and have been blown away by just how much better Digital SLRs have gotten, and the 10D is already a few years old.

The first thing I have done with it is take it out at night mounted on a tripod for sone long exposures. With the 30 seconds as the longest exposure possible with the onboard settings I found the camera to be nearly as good as film. With my DCS-520 anything longer then a few seconds looks like crap.

The pictures I took on this clear Late summer night were OK, but had I been using my brain I could have done much better. With all my excitement of using a new camera I didn't use the self timer to trip the shutter, many of the shots I took were out of focus from camera shake.

To remedy this I went home and bought a remote shutter release from Hong Kong since the one from Hong Kong cost about a third of the one from America. that was 16 days ago and I haven't got my release yet. Did get an email saying it was shipped about 6 days ago, so I may get it in the next few days?

Anyway being out amoung the stars got me thinking about astronomy again. I like astronomy, but expect to much from it. I always expect to see great things, when the truth is that just seeing anthing is often times a victory when looking in a telescope.

I'm thinking about buying a motorized telescope to take star pictures. But of course I probably would be better off to not spend a ton of money.