Can anyone tell me what settings to use to take a long exposure picture of the night sky to see stars? Thanks in advance!
No, I don't have an SJ7. I think it is the same sensor as the Gitup Git3 though, so should be able to do a nice job if the necessary settings are available. The SJ6 seems to have copied the exposure settings available on the Git2 so I guess the SJ7 has them too.not sure if he has that model but @Nigel has taken a lot of those types of photos with really nice results and might be able to offer you some tips
The SJ6 has a "Photolapse" mode that includes shutter speed and ISO settings, I guess the SJ7 has too?Thanks for the tips @Nigel! I'll have to try to take a drive to the mountains away from the light pollution so I can get some cool shots.
Not sure if this is possible in the SJ7 yet, but a nightlapse feature would be awesome too.
Yes, SJ7 has video and photo lapse.The SJ6 has a "Photolapse" mode that includes shutter speed and ISO settings, I guess the SJ7 has too?
Choose the shortest interval available between photos, eg 3 seconds interval and 60 seconds exposure with ISO 1600 and post a photo here so we can see how it compares to the Gitup Git2:
Milky Way:
Orion in dark skies (ISO 800):
The Plough and a moonrise chasing Jupiter with trees illuminated by flash gun:
Those seem really dark for ISO 800 30 seconds, they also seem a bit blurred, but you are on the right track.All of these were done with just 30 second exposure time and 800 ISO.
2 Different locations, first one was at a vista point along the road up the mountain and the yellow glow you can see is the city in the distance, second location was a lake and there were just a few lights on the water but the sky was very dark.
If I would have increased the ISO and exposure time you'd see the milky way really clearly. You can see it's haze in some of the pictures.
Looking nice! A true photographer!Here are some low light pictures i have taken with my Nikon, will just link to small thumb or it is massive 20 mpix pictures.
Off course no time wasted with photo-shop when you can be out there taking pictures instead.
Which camera was this shot using?Do you have a timer delay before it takes the shot? Pressing the button introduces a lot of shaking, you need to let the rig stabilize for at least 5 seconds before the cam takes the shot.
You can only get half of the milkyway from your latitude and Scorpio is already near the horizon in your pics. Ideally the target should as high above as possible.
Another thing you can try is star trails, which involves stacking multiple images together
A cheap d5200? I use a d5000 and before that a d50. You don't need super expensive stuff to be a photographer. Here's a milkyway shot and an Andromeda galaxy shot I did. View attachment 32203 View attachment 32204