Is the Milky Way Visible with a New Wide-Angle Lens in Sydney's Night Sky?

In summary, Dave shared a picture taken with his Samyang 14mm ultra wide angle lens on his Canon 5D Mk3, using 3200 ISO, 14mm f/l, f2.8, and a 20 second exposure. He traveled outside of Sydney to avoid city lights and get a clear view to the southwest. He also mentioned annotating the image to help others with orientation. He was impressed with the lens's color rendition and minimal aberration. One commenter also complimented the image and asked about the exposure length, which Dave clarified was 20 seconds. Another asked if it was a stacked or single exposure, to which Dave replied it was a single 20 second exposure.
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finally got a chance to get out and try out my relatively new Samyang 14mm ultra wide angle lens

this is using the Canon 5D Mk3, 3200 ISO, 14mm f/l, f2.8, 20 sec exp. The view is to the SW
I traveled for about 40 minutes to get south of Sydney and away from the main city lights and their skyglow

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cheers
Dave
 
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Great picture Dave. I always get a little envious when I see sky pictures like this. :smile:
 
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Thanks mate :)
OK over last 30 mins or so just been annotating that image to point out a few things to help people with orientation

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I'm quite impressed with this Samyang 14mm lens, it produces a nice colour rendition and with
very little aberration, colour or spherical around the edges of the image. Cant say the same for the my Canon EF 50mm f1.4 ... the spherical aberration around the edges was quite badDave
 
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Nice pic, Dave. Thanks for posting.
 
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Nice. How long was the exposure?
 
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tfr000 said:
Nice. How long was the exposure?

ohhh sorry for that ... didn't notice that I hadn't added it, its there now ... 20 sec :smile:
any longer and I would have started to get star trailing
 
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stacked or single exposure?
 
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Chronos said:
stacked or single exposure?

single 20 sec exp :smile:
 

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