These cameras can still be used for high-resolution planetary photography by recording Live View at 5x magnification with these programs onto a computer. Note that Canon cameras prior to the 5D Mark II, such as the 50D, XS (1000D), XSi (450D) and 40D, do not shoot video in the camera at all, but they do have Live View.
1000D LIVEVIEW SOFTWARE
Unless you have a Canon 60Da, 60D or T2i (550D), recording Live View at 5x magnification with the software listed below will give you the closest to 1:1 pixel resolution. If you do have one of these more recent cameras and you get a chance to test it, please let me know what you find and send me an The chances are that if you have a more recent model that is not listed above, it will work similarly and be usable for high-resolution planetary imaging. Note that a "No" does not mean the feature is not available on the camera, it means that the feature does not give exactly 1:1 pixel resolution.Īll of the cameras listed above can be used to take great high-resolution planetary images with Live View that recorded at 5x with the software program listed below.
Nikon DSLR cameras, unfortunately, at least the ones I have tested, are not suitable for this kind of high-resolution lucky planetary imaging because their Live View images are too highly compressed to be usable. If you are not getting 1:1 pixel resolution, the camera's software has to re-sample the image, and this loses a little bit of sharpness that can help in recording the very finest details on nights of excellent seeing.
It uses special software like RegiStax, AutoStakkert!, AviStack or Images Plus to sort through all of the frames and pick out only the best ones and stack them. Lucky Imaging uses videos where lots of frames are shot in the hopes of getting lucky and getting some with good atmospheric seeing where the image is sharp.
1000D LIVEVIEW FULL
Jupiter shot with a Canon T5i (700D) recording Live View with a 5-inch refractor using the best 360 frames out of 3,600, stacked in AutoStakkert! 2.įor high-resolution planetary photography, the best method to record videos for Lucky Imaging is to have access to the full resolution of the camera at 1:1 pixel resolution. 1:1 Pixel Resolution in Canon DSLRs for Planetary Photography
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