A convergence of hobbies

[jimbo88mm]

Nice rig and great use of the freeware! That's one helluva TLR camera, lol! Makes my little Yashicamat 124 look like a toy, hahaha.

I've often wanted to get more serious about astrophotography, but with the initial expense being what it is, I tend to stick to putting my phone on my spotting scope to take pictures of Saturn and Jupiter and its moons. I sometimes will throw an old manual 2x TC onto a 300mm on my crop sensor digital body and shoot from the hip using "lunar 11" rules. Get some good ones occasionally.

It is an expensive hobby. I've sunk thousands in it and honestly I'm running on entry level equipment. Newer cmos camera's are very capable and the prices are improving.

 

[jimbo88mm]

Very nice. I've played with it off and on but have not gotten serious yet. I've had a Williams Optical scope and the t-ring to adapt my APSC sensor camera for a couple of years. Picked up a field flattner a while back. Maybe I'll get around to it at some point. Too many other projects and commitments currently. This retirement gig schedule is a nightmare. May have to go back to work to free up a little time... NOT!

William optics puts out some nice scopes. I've found that can I only have the time and energy to support two hobbies at a time.