Shoot for the Stars With A Benro Polaris - A Mono Lake Adventure with Lewis Kemper and Wanderer
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- I spent 2 nights camping in Wanderer at Mono Lake. My goal for going was to photograph the Milky Way with my Benro Polaris Motorized Tripod Head. Join me to see how I accomplished my goal.
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Found your channel because I was searching for info on the Benro Polaris - liked and subscribed. I'm considering purchasing it for daytime panoramas, but the astrophotography looks amazing. Seems like a nice retirement life - wandering around in an RV and exploring with photography...
Hi Lawrence, the Polaris will give you lots of opportunities for both the pano work and the Astro. I did a pani job a few months ago for an organization that wanted to create an 8 x 24 foot wall mural. The Polaris shot a multi row pano that I stitched together in Photoshop to make a large enough file.
And yes it very fun traveling around in Wander!
Lewis, That is some serious technology! Great job! Beautiful images.!
Thank you!
Excellent Job, just got my benro polaris, this will help me get started. Thanks!
Thanks and good luck!
Very cool. I had no idea Benro had that tech.
Thank you, and yes it is really amazing!
Very nice
Thank you!
very nice --- I learned a lot -- I think I have been trying to calibrate my polaris with an incorrect positioning of the iPhone. Your demo helped!
I am glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Lewis, Thanks for the video, very o=illustrative and interesting! I would like to use it with a telescope for deep space photography, could I use it?
I don’t have any experience doing that, but I have heard of many people doing so. It’ll all come down to how big and heavy your telescope is. But the Polaris can handle a fair amount of weight.
Beautiful photos of the Milky Way, it must be really dark , Bortle 2-3 perhaps?
also, beautiful blending of ground with sky on Photoshop!
I watched you level the tripod and calibrate the Polaris, then star align and then track.
Before watching your video, I spent a night in the desert with a a group of Astro aficionados and I had some serious issues with mu new Polaris:
First my leveled tripod was not enough because Polaris went wacko and un-leveled itself.
Second, the calibration: my iphone was off by a few degrees and although GPS is not dependent on cellular reception, and there was no cellular reception where I was, my calibration wasn't accurate at all.
Third, 1st star alignment was nearly impossible because I could not center it with the joysticks on the red target. when going to fine adjustments, nothing moves...
So, After struggling with leveling, calibration and alignment, I took shots of the Milky Way arch from 30 degrees to 50 degrees and my stars came out streaking...what a disappointment.
I must practice some more to master the Polaris. any advice will be appreciated.
I've had nights like that before the newest updates. Having the tripod level is reall important. The Polaris will end up out of level after each shot since it is spinning and tracking. You need to double tap the joysticks between shots. The gps, compass reading can be off I recommend you watch this video ( I am going to do this from now on) ua-cam.com/video/kAs9low_QeU/v-deo.html. As far as no movement ith fine tune mode, the movement is painstakingly slow since it is fine tuning ( I wish it were a bit faster). SO you have to try and get as close as possible with the gross movements
sound like it needs a wheel icon to fine tune instead of the slider tabs...seems like it uses excessive memory also.@@1ndrr_ljk
Nice photograph, I did photograph 25-30 years ago, but I'm thinking of getting back into it. Does anybody know if one of these tracking heads is worth having if you live in an urban environment, or is there to much light pollution. I know it wouldn't be perfect but how much of a difference do you get after editing, or is it a waste of time?
A tracking head will allow for longer exposures, therefore the abililty to gather more light information which includes the color of the stars. But if you live somewhere where you really can't see the stars it probably won't do too much good.
@ljkemper thanks for the help, I think maybe I should just try some long exposures and see what I get with just using a tripod, and then that might answer it probably. Thank you.
i read only about big problems with this thing
I haven’t had any since several firmware updates ago. When it was first released the software really wasn’t ready but Benro has addressed those issues
@@1ndrr_ljk wow good news thank you
@@1ndrr_ljk than you are lucky . untill 2day lots of problems dispite al the firmware updates .