Deep Sky Photography Made Easy: Dwarf II Smart Telescope Review
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- Опубліковано 23 жов 2023
- In this video I share my experience with the Dwaf II Smart Telescope from Dwarflab.
Before focussing on landscape astrophotography I had been doing deep sky photography for a couple of years already. That mostly involved shooting from my lightpolluted backyard with computerised and expensive setups with telescopes, dedicated cooled astrophotography cameras and large mounts. Those setups however were not portable at all, definately not plug & play and it meant that I was mostly sitting inside, seeeing the exposures come in from the couch.
Although that was all good fun, I really missed being out under dark skies myself. I longed for the adventure and special experience you get from being out in the field, mesmerised by the galaxy in all its glory above you. Bringing my deep sky photography rig out into the field was not practical at all, so that's when I decided to focus on nightscape photography.
But what if there was a super portable, easy to use all-in-one smart telescope which I could bring with me easily into the field and setup quickly? Let's see and find out!
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DISCLAIMER
Dwarflab have sent me the Dwarf II in exchange for a review video and I will not have to return it. I agreed under the condition I could give my honest and own opinion based on my own experience only. Dwarflab agreed and did not have any influence on the content of this video.
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I may get one of those. Thanks for the video. M31 looked great.
Great review Jeroen, an interesting bit of kit and as per your conclusion, I could definitely see this as a gentle introduction to deep sky photography. Or as something else to play with while out there shootimg nightscapes 👌.
I use a Bahtinov mask on mine and a cheap power bank to keep the scope powered. I bought the Deluxe version with the lens holder, 2 solar filters, a spare battery and a UHC filter. It's also great for a bit of solar photography and is generally easy to use. I had a problem with my original unit (pinched optics), and emailed them about this. Very prompt response, asked me to share my data with them and they replied within the hour to confirm that they would ship a new unit to me. No need to return the old one. Really good customer service.
Great review! Cool device to play around with
Hey Jeroen! Nice video. I was contacted by Dwarflabs too for my UA-cam channel, but I turned them down as I didn't feel like I could add anything new what wasn't already shown in other already existing videos. Watching your video fills me with a little bit regret on that decision ;-) Did a review on the AM5 for Ganymedes a year ago and that took ages (for me) to turn into a watchable video. Purchased it in the end (a bit expensive for Ganymedes to make into a freebie).
Great review thank you. Please keep us informed with updates and improvements
RANDOM astro buddy please!!! ;) Crazy light pollution going on beneath the clouds... For the price this is a truly neat device!
Ah yes yes interessante vidoe yes yes🎬
hola nice demo thanks can you kindly let me know how to shoot with it milky way?
As a tech gadget I love it, seems to take a lot of faff out of the technical side of acquisition. The fact it seems to deliver on that is really commendable. Not a photon bucket though which is so much of what DSO is. Wonder if they could apply a similar approach to a device made for exploring fine detail if the moon? Would also love to see what it can do with solar imaging.
Here in Brazil you need to pay a fee of 92% of the value of the product
Not my cup of tea, but still interesting device and maybe a good foundation for future of portable DSO rigs for those who want simplicity
What tripod is that? I am not a fan on the table top one that comes with it
Talking about deep sky, that practically doesn't evolve over a lifetime, what is the final difference between using this kind of contraption and browsing for pictures of celestial objects on the internet, since the final experience in both cases is a mere staring at a digital image on a screen?