Oct 28
by Alex Conu in Astrophotography, Behind the Shot, HowTo 8 comments tags: astronomy, astrophotography, camping, enerplex, fornax, galaxy, light, lightrack, lofoten, perseus, travel, tutorial

Astrophotography on the go

I travel and I camp quite a lot. And I love astrophotography. How can you mix these two? Some time ago, I was using a traditional German equatorial mount, a guidescope and a laptop for astrophotography. The mount was around 18 kilos, tripod included, the guidescope around 2 and the laptop added another 1.5 kg to the setup. This was without my camera and imaging telescope or camera lenses. Oh, and let’s not forget the heavy 12V battery. And the cables. Lots of cables and adapters. Then, I decided to switch to a lighter setup more suitable to by style of astrophotography. I usually do astrophotography at short focal lengths, the longest being 500mm. Now, most of my astrophotography is done with a star tracker on a tripod, one camera body, two lenses, one telescope and one Macbook Pro for post processing. And a portable power pack. For the tracker, I chose the Fornax LighTrack II. Yes, there are lighter trackers out there, but I agreed to trade some weight for tracking accuracy. The LighTrack II is for sure the most accurate star tracker available on the market today. The peak-to-peak unguided tracking error of the LighTrack is around 2 arcseconds, […]
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Jun 26
by Alex Conu in Behind the Shot, Review 8 comments tags: bouldering, camera, hiking, lofoten, olympus, outdoors, review, rugged, tg-4, tough

Olympus Stylus TG-4 – the small but powerful tough guy

In April 2015, Olympus came with an update to it’s Tough line - the Stylus TG-4. I was really interested in buying the TG-3, so when a follow up was announced I got really excited. Three weeks ago, the guys at Olympus Norge sent me a TG-4 to test for a while around Lofoten.
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Apr 21
by Alex Conu in Adventure, Behind the Shot, Northern Lights 0 comments tags: aurora borealis, bouldering, cold, northern lights, outdoor photography, winter

Bouldering under the Northern Lights

A bit of location scouting and some help from Lady Aurora made this photo a lot more interesting than my other try. But, all in all, the experience is fantastic. Battling the cold is a lot more enjoyable under the undulating curtains of the Aurora Borealis.
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