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More of a musing than maybe something I'll act on but anyway...
When I've shot wide field astro to date, I've done it the 'simple' way, wide aperture lens, high iso, single 20 something exposure, bit of PP after, Job done. I'm happy enough with the results but there are some practical downsides, the biggest being that I end up owning expensive, heavy, fast wide lenses for the sole purpose of astro shooting which makes up only a small proportion of my photography. If that requirement was removed, I could buy much more practical f/4 zooms etc that would serve a much wider purpose.
So I'm starting to question whether I could actually achieve better results by taking lots of noisier images with slower lenses and stacking them.
I would try this experiment for myself but have had very opportunities to shoot in last few weeks and the go to software for mac seems to be starry landscape stacker which costs £40 so would love to garner some opinions before I take the plunge.
When I've shot wide field astro to date, I've done it the 'simple' way, wide aperture lens, high iso, single 20 something exposure, bit of PP after, Job done. I'm happy enough with the results but there are some practical downsides, the biggest being that I end up owning expensive, heavy, fast wide lenses for the sole purpose of astro shooting which makes up only a small proportion of my photography. If that requirement was removed, I could buy much more practical f/4 zooms etc that would serve a much wider purpose.
So I'm starting to question whether I could actually achieve better results by taking lots of noisier images with slower lenses and stacking them.
I would try this experiment for myself but have had very opportunities to shoot in last few weeks and the go to software for mac seems to be starry landscape stacker which costs £40 so would love to garner some opinions before I take the plunge.