1. Polar alignment 2. Panoramas 3. Very subtle and precise adjustments I think the best images you've made in your videos are in this one. I love pretty much every single one. Especially the one with the reflections.
Really enjoyed these, lovely to see someone working hard and enjoying it. For the comp: 1. Panorama with 50% overlap for easier stitching 2. Minute adjustments on 2 axis 3. Degree markings to set latitude on the y axis for correct height
It's always incredible to see how much work there's behind a shot! Great vlog as usual! For the contest: - Panoramas - Fine adjustments for alignment and tracking - Polar Alignment
1. Fine adjustment 2. panorama photography 3. polar alignment Always an inspiration for astrophotography. Love watching your channel. Cheers from Sweden!
Wow, Alan, been a bit of time since we’ve seen you release a vlog but when you do, there’s no half measures. That was absolutely phenomenal and those images were simply breathtaking. Going need to watch this again, not to get the answers for the give away, but simply to let the chin hit the floor through looking at these images once more 👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks for putting in all of the work for this VLOG. Very useful. When you said 4,000 meters, I remembered Mauna Kea at night (same altitude). You can't think, walk, or talk well. Then the sickness.
1. fine adjustments with no sag like a ballhead, easier to keep objects in frame. 2. Makes panos much easier. 3. Easy to polar align when using a tracker. Thanks Alyn! Great video as always!
You've taken it up another notch mate. Stunning work. For the Benro gear: 1. fine adjustments 2. makes panoramas easier 3. better for polar alignment All the best.
Super inspiring work! Keep it up! Answers: 1. To do your polar alignment in S. America using the 135mm lens 2. To make your panorama easier 3. Ability to make fine adjustments with sag
This is such an excellent an highly informativ channel! Your pictures and panoramas are one of the best out there! For the Benro comp: 1. Fine adjustments, especially with long lenses 2. Easier panoramas 3. Polar alignment and equatorial wedge (degree markings on y axis) Keep up the outstanding work!!
Incredibly photo's as always! 1. Easy rotation of the camera to ensure 50% overlap when doing pano's 2. Easier to make small adjustments to the the geared head to maintain your framing 3. Ensures polar alignment when using the star tracker Looking forward to the next video!
Smashing set of videos and well worth the wait for each. Those reflections are magic looking! I'll throw my name in the hat here and best of luck to all! :) 1.Polar alignment 2. Easier panoramic 3.Fine adjustments
Fantastic Video again, so informative. For the giveaway I think the three aspects you used the geared head for was, 1. Using the Geared head to create the polar Alignment 2. To keep the sun in frame by micro adjusting the rotational axis 3. To make stitching for panoramas more efficient
Wow! I've been there last November! In order to get used to altitude, go to Peru first, and travel from Lima all the way along the cost through Nazca, Arequipa, Puno to Cuzco. Get used gradually. Take some trips there to the Andes. After these exercises, in Chile you would feel great. The sky in Atacama is the best indeed. Thanks for amazing job you do and your channel. Regards from Ukraine!
Oh, forgot one... No sagging! Fantastic videos! Now I really want to visit Chile. For the contest, 1. Panoramas 2. Polar alignment 3. Fine tuning / micro adjustments Now going o go check out Adrien’s stuff. Great work and thanks for bringing us along, cheers!
Awesome video as always Alyn! Answers are to do panos easier, make fine adjustments better than on a ball head and for better polar alignment with a tracker!
Very cool shots. I don't do a ton of astro, it's a totally different ballgame. Tons of work to get to the right spots, and spending a lot of time being awake at night. I have spent time in the Atacama, it's a surreal landscape, I love it. Answer: alignment of the tracker since you don't have Polaris in the south. Making panoramas with multiple overlapping shots. Fine adjustments to composition.
This is one of your best vlogs..incredible work.... thanks for taking us along... 1: Gear head for: moon shoots with longer lens: moon/sun centered 2: Observatory shots with MW and moon: Pano shots 3: polar alignment w'star tracker, longer focal length. Thanks again for sharing!!
Always look forward to these vlogs but that was the best one in ages. Some stunning shots in there :-) For the answer to the question: use it for panoramas, for polar alignment and for fine adjustments.
Love the vlogs! 1. Making minute adjustments with no sag like a ball head 2. Making the panoramic stichting much easier. 3. Using the head to make the polar alignment.
Alignment Taking panorama photos Fine adjustment Three things that are essential for astrophotography. And of which I have none XD Only started taking photos a couple of months ago. Great videos, really insightful for new photographers!
Great video as always, love the last Milkyway Pano. 1) To aid with the polar alignment with your Move-shoot-move SIFO tracker. 2) Panoramic's made easier to stitch together 3) being able to make adjustments without out any lens sag or drop.
Hey Alyn, In this awesome video you used the Benro Geared Head to: 1. Have awesome polar alignment 2. Taking and creating easy panoramas 3. Making fine adjustments Keep up the awesome, helpful videos!
Awesome work dude. 16 shot panorama of the milky way was really good, mindblowing detail! 1 - precise adjustment, no sag, no surprises 2 - tracker alignment 3 - panoramas, panoramas, panoramas (3 times, cause panoramas are awesome)
1) To keep the sun in the middle of the frame with minute adjustments and no sagging necessary for a telephoto lens for the Solar Eclipse. (this is the use I'm most interested since you showed us the gear head the first time) 2) Panorama of the telescopes at Alma, easy to get 50% overlap when working in the dark. 3) Used as a mount to do the polar alignment with minute adjustments and set the latitude straight away. Amazing vlog as usual, but this one was quite special, 20 minutes long and full of incredible photos, so many great pieces of information and a nice story to wrap everything, well done! I watched it straight away but then I had to rewatch the other vlogs to get the answers, which was still entertaining. I would appreciate a video of you explaining the entire experience in Cile, from the Solar eclipse to shooting in one of the best places in the world, as well as maybe sharing all the gear you brought (which looks like you had a lot) and how it was useful and maybe some extra tips for travelling in those countries. Thanks for the amazing content, cheers!
Fantastic videos! Now I really want to visit Chile. For the contest, 1. Panoramas 2. Polar alignment 3. Fine tuning / micro adjustments Now going o go check out Adrien’s stuff. Great work and thanks for bringing us along, cheers!
Great nightscapes ! These are the first I've seen taken with an astro-modified SONY. The ways in which you used the Benro Geared Head: 1. Tracked panorama of the Milky Way core at Atacama. 2. Keeping the sun and moon centered during the total eclipse. 3. Panorama of the ALMA radio telescopes and the Milky Way.
Beautiful Alyn, now I want to spend the winter in Chile. Answers: 1. panorama rotation at the observatory 2. fine adjustment to keep the sun in the center, and 3. to mount the star tracker.
Arrrrggghhhh, this is making me want to go travelling so bad .... amazing video, well done. 3 uses: tracking the eclipse with fine adjustments at long focal lengths, fast and easy overlapping panos, and polar alignment for the sky tracker. Keep the awesome content coming 👍
loving the Chile vlogs man... Cheers for the advice on the Move Shoot Move! I got mine and it really is a boss bit of kit! I'm just waiting for some decent time off to coincide with some clear skies so i can proper check it out. For the benro competition the three ways you used the Geared head were for -Polar Alignment -Panorama's -Fine tuning
great video with stunning shots 1. Used the gearhead to slowly track the eclipse. 2. Used it to do panoramas 3. Used it to help with polar alignment with the star trakker
That's awesome you are able to do a giveaway! The three things you mentioned: 1) Panoramic shots (some of my favorite) 2) Fine adjustments 3) Ability to polar allign Good luck and clear skies everyone! :D
Great video! That altitude sickness would've broken me lol. 3 uses: 1) Small/fine adjustments that allowed you to keep the sun in the centre of the frame 2) Makes the process of making a panorma much easier than when using a ballhead plus no sag 3) Eases the polar alignment when using a tracker especially in southern hemisphere due to no Polaris.
AGAIN EPIC!!! Great education on the panorama mount! The Benro gear head looks great for a perfect level while sitting up lighter than a fluid head, looks better than a ball head! Also great example of the 2 week window for MW capture, yes a crescent moon (looking full), but if bad weather on the new moon able to go out early or later!!!
Inspiring as usual man! Eclipse: minute adjustments for keeping sun and moon centered Alma: easy 50% overlap for panoramas Atacama: use as a mount for polar alignment
Awesome video from amazing location. High altitude sickness, that's dedication and commitment. More precise adjustments, easier and faster panoramas, polar alignment.
This head looks really useful. 1. Fine adjustment for the eclipse to keep framing and removing sag with heavy lenses 2. Panorama photography to get the right amount of overlap 3. Replacement for a wedge base for Polar alignment again for reducing sag and increasing precision in pointing at the 'celestial south pole'
1 - To make minute adjustments to manually track the sun/moon in the centre of the frame with no saggy sag of the telephoto lens 2 - To make the pano of the telescopes easy in the dark by use of the degree markers for a decent overlap 3 - Used with the star tracker moveshootmove to polar align in the Southern hemisphere with use of the degree markers Fingers crossed for everyone but more so for ME! 😏 the image of the milkyway dipping into the valley and the river leading to it was brilliant. Thanks Alyn, thanks Benro!
Great episode Alyn! Loved the pano at 18:45! Alma Observatory - horizontal pano Solar eclipse - tracking the sun with a telephoto lens Atacama Desert - polar alignment
For alignment For adjustment For panoramic images Dude the Milky way looked pulchritudinous 💕 So glad to see your videos as always. Keep up the good work mate 🤘
Getting the right polar equivalent alignement, panoramas, and easy fine tuning ajustements. This channel is so underated. Your shots are amazing especially the moon-o-rama. !
Fine alignment of the tracker, macro (focus stacking), panoramic stitching and leveling. Love the adventures you take us on, keep them coming! And glad you both recovered from the high altitudes so quickly. Safe travels!
Thanks for another damn great video. Cannot wait till next adventure! Regarding the Benro gear head usage: 1-Panoramas 2-Polar alingment 3-Fine adjustments
Yo, Love the pictures in this video... superb shots, Hope you guys are ok with altitude sickness. The Gear head you mainly used for 1. Polar alignment 2. Panoramas 3. Fine adjustment with degree labels.
This was a truly remarkable video Alyn, one of your very best. It must be that beautiful southern hemisphere night sky that agrees with you ...!!! Well done, awesome images. Richard
I absolutely love your videos! Your work is phenomenal! And as for the answers for the benro head.....panoramic shots to overlap each shot, fine adjustments to keep sun/moon in shot, polar alignment! Thanks for the chance to win!
I had to pause the video in the last shot (18:44) to appreciate it a little longer, the colors are so beautiful, such an amazing photo, congratulations! You used the Benro Geared Head in your videos to do panoramas, polar aligment with the tracker and fine adjustments.
Incredible to see the moon set, looked like day light. Definitely in my to do list, I know high levitation will be a challenge I’ll have to prepare for!
Great video as usual and some fantastic images. Geared Head Uses: 1) Fine adjustment when using telephoto lens to keep sun in the center of the frame. 2) Creating a Panorama, ensuring each shot has 50% overlap even in low light. 3) When using a star tracker it allows for fine adjustment to ensure that it is polar aligned.
Hi Alyn, great video as usual! The three uses for the Benro: Fine tune the framing during solar eclipse It makes easier to capture panoramas Huge help in polar alignment of the tracker Keep posting these videos! You helped me a lot to start with astrophotography! Thanks.. And hope to see you again in Dolomites
It’s like your work is on a geared head... taking it up a Degree of excellence every new VLOG!!! 1) minute adjustments for tracking the solar eclipse with a telescopic lens 2) better Panoramic photographs making sure the degree of over lap is correct 3) polar alignment for the MSM sky tracker Cheers Alyn 👍🏻😁
Awesome video and photos from an awesome place! You used the geared head to keep the sun in the center of the frame during the eclipse. At the observatory you used it for a panrorama (that's what I would do all the time with a good geared head). And finally you used the geared head to mount the star tracker and get the polar alignment.
Amazing work as usual mate, that geared head looks very useful. 1. Micro adjustments to keep the sun in the frame for the eclipse. 2. Easier panoramas with the geared head. 3. Used it to align the star tracker.
Great shots, Alyn, I particularly liked the one with the four visible galaxies. Looks like you guys made the most of such a fantastic opportunity......
Mate .. some of your best vlogs to date, what an experience :-) Also kudos for fighting the altitude sickness! For the competition You used the Benro Geared head to, Keep the sun in the middle of the frame for the eclipse with minute adjustments in two axes. Rotate the camera a certain Number of degrees when creating the panorama at ALMA. As a mount to do polar alignment with minute adjustments.
1. Polar alignment
2. Panoramas
3. Very subtle and precise adjustments
I think the best images you've made in your videos are in this one. I love pretty much every single one. Especially the one with the reflections.
Absolutely incredible! I'm not ashamed to say I welled up a bit looking at these astonishing images, thanks so much for sharing!
Really enjoyed these, lovely to see someone working hard and enjoying it. For the comp:
1. Panorama with 50% overlap for easier stitching
2. Minute adjustments on 2 axis
3. Degree markings to set latitude on the y axis for correct height
It's always incredible to see how much work there's behind a shot!
Great vlog as usual!
For the contest:
- Panoramas
- Fine adjustments for alignment and tracking
- Polar Alignment
Unreal as always. 1. Easy panoramas. 2. Polar alignment. 3. Fine adjustments
1. Fine adjustment
2. panorama photography
3. polar alignment
Always an inspiration for astrophotography. Love watching your channel. Cheers from Sweden!
Wow, Alan, been a bit of time since we’ve seen you release a vlog but when you do, there’s no half measures. That was absolutely phenomenal and those images were simply breathtaking. Going need to watch this again, not to get the answers for the give away, but simply to let the chin hit the floor through looking at these images once more 👍🏼👍🏼
Awesome work mate, been looking forward to the vlog! ANSWERS; 1) absolute precision positioning/fine tuning 2) panos 3) mount for tracker/alignment
Thanks for putting in all of the work for this VLOG. Very useful. When you said 4,000 meters, I remembered Mauna Kea at night (same altitude). You can't think, walk, or talk well. Then the sickness.
Stellar as always! Loved the valley of the rainbow!
1.polar alignment
2. Easy Panoramas
3. Fine adjustments / alignm
1. fine adjustments with no sag like a ballhead, easier to keep objects in frame.
2. Makes panos much easier.
3. Easy to polar align when using a tracker.
Thanks Alyn! Great video as always!
Those are the most AMAZING Milky Way panos I have ever seen!! Thank you for sharing with the world.
You've taken it up another notch mate. Stunning work.
For the Benro gear:
1. fine adjustments
2. makes panoramas easier
3. better for polar alignment
All the best.
Super inspiring work! Keep it up!
Answers:
1. To do your polar alignment in S. America using the 135mm lens
2. To make your panorama easier
3. Ability to make fine adjustments with sag
So love watching your videos. Watched this one again and again.👍🏼⭐️👌🏼
This is such an excellent an highly informativ channel! Your pictures and panoramas are one of the best out there! For the Benro comp:
1. Fine adjustments, especially with long lenses
2. Easier panoramas
3. Polar alignment and equatorial wedge (degree markings on y axis)
Keep up the outstanding work!!
Great Video as Always!
1. Panorama
2. Tracking/equatorial wedge
3. Fine adjustments
Polar alignments. Panoramas. Fine tuning. Fabulous shots and great vlog as usual
Incredibly photo's as always!
1. Easy rotation of the camera to ensure 50% overlap when doing pano's
2. Easier to make small adjustments to the the geared head to maintain your framing
3. Ensures polar alignment when using the star tracker
Looking forward to the next video!
Smashing set of videos and well worth the wait for each. Those reflections are magic looking!
I'll throw my name in the hat here and best of luck to all! :)
1.Polar alignment
2. Easier panoramic
3.Fine adjustments
Some of the most amazing astrophotography I have ever seen.
Fantastic Video again, so informative. For the giveaway I think the three aspects you used the geared head for was,
1. Using the Geared head to create the polar Alignment
2. To keep the sun in frame by micro adjusting the rotational axis
3. To make stitching for panoramas more efficient
Amazing photos!!
1. fine adjustment
2. making panorama photography
3. polar alignment
Wow! I've been there last November! In order to get used to altitude, go to Peru first, and travel from Lima all the way along the cost through Nazca, Arequipa, Puno to Cuzco. Get used gradually. Take some trips there to the Andes. After these exercises, in Chile you would feel great. The sky in Atacama is the best indeed. Thanks for amazing job you do and your channel. Regards from Ukraine!
Really great work you guys, beautiful, just awesome astro photography. What a gorgeous universe.
Oh, forgot one... No sagging!
Fantastic videos! Now I really want to visit Chile. For the contest,
1. Panoramas
2. Polar alignment
3. Fine tuning / micro adjustments
Now going o go check out Adrien’s stuff. Great work and thanks for bringing us along, cheers!
Another great vlog and some stunning images
1. Polar Alignment
2. Panoramas
3.Fine adjustments
1. Easy Panoramas
2. Fine Adjustments
3. Polar Alignment
The views are stunning!😍
All I can say is wow... those shots were phenomenal. Great job and great video!
Awesome video as always Alyn! Answers are to do panos easier, make fine adjustments better than on a ball head and for better polar alignment with a tracker!
Thanks Alyn!
1. Tracker alignment
2. Accurate and fine adjustments
3. Making panorama's quicker and easier to execute.
Very cool shots. I don't do a ton of astro, it's a totally different ballgame. Tons of work to get to the right spots, and spending a lot of time being awake at night. I have spent time in the Atacama, it's a surreal landscape, I love it.
Answer: alignment of the tracker since you don't have Polaris in the south. Making panoramas with multiple overlapping shots. Fine adjustments to composition.
This is one of your best vlogs..incredible work.... thanks for taking us along... 1: Gear head for: moon shoots with longer lens: moon/sun centered 2: Observatory shots with MW and moon: Pano shots 3: polar alignment w'star tracker, longer focal length.
Thanks again for sharing!!
Polar alignment. . Panorama. . And fine tuning ... best of luck .. its a great prize .. thank you
Wow, beautiful shots.
1. For fine adjustments
2. For panorama photography
3. For polar alignment using the tracker.
Always look forward to these vlogs but that was the best one in ages. Some stunning shots in there :-)
For the answer to the question:
use it for panoramas, for polar alignment and for fine adjustments.
In my opinion, these are some of, if not the best photos I have seen on any of your vids
Thanks!
Love the vlogs!
1. Making minute adjustments with no sag like a ball head
2. Making the panoramic stichting much easier.
3. Using the head to make the polar alignment.
Alignment
Taking panorama photos
Fine adjustment
Three things that are essential for astrophotography. And of which I have none XD Only started taking photos a couple of months ago. Great videos, really insightful for new photographers!
Great video as always, love the last Milkyway Pano.
1) To aid with the polar alignment with your Move-shoot-move SIFO tracker.
2) Panoramic's made easier to stitch together
3) being able to make adjustments without out any lens sag or drop.
Hey Alyn,
In this awesome video you used the Benro Geared Head to:
1. Have awesome polar alignment
2. Taking and creating easy panoramas
3. Making fine adjustments
Keep up the awesome, helpful videos!
love how accurate the milky way shots are to how it really looks to the naked eye
Awesome work dude. 16 shot panorama of the milky way was really good, mindblowing detail!
1 - precise adjustment, no sag, no surprises
2 - tracker alignment
3 - panoramas, panoramas, panoramas (3 times, cause panoramas are awesome)
Some amazing shots as usual.
Uses for gear head 1. Polar alignment 2. Panoramic shooting 3. very fine accurate adjustments :-)
Stunning pictures!
1. Enables polar alignment using degree markers
2. Enables fine adjustments
3. Helps more precise panoramics
Another master upload👍🔭✨
1.making fine adjustments.
2.polar alignment
3. Panoramas
1) To keep the sun in the middle of the frame with minute adjustments and no sagging necessary for a telephoto lens for the Solar Eclipse. (this is the use I'm most interested since you showed us the gear head the first time)
2) Panorama of the telescopes at Alma, easy to get 50% overlap when working in the dark.
3) Used as a mount to do the polar alignment with minute adjustments and set the latitude straight away.
Amazing vlog as usual, but this one was quite special, 20 minutes long and full of incredible photos, so many great pieces of information and a nice story to wrap everything, well done! I watched it straight away but then I had to rewatch the other vlogs to get the answers, which was still entertaining.
I would appreciate a video of you explaining the entire experience in Cile, from the Solar eclipse to shooting in one of the best places in the world, as well as maybe sharing all the gear you brought (which looks like you had a lot) and how it was useful and maybe some extra tips for travelling in those countries. Thanks for the amazing content, cheers!
Hi Alyn, an inspiration as always! Phenomenal work. Answers are polar alignment, panoramas and fine tuning.
Fantastic videos! Now I really want to visit Chile. For the contest,
1. Panoramas
2. Polar alignment
3. Fine tuning / micro adjustments
Now going o go check out Adrien’s stuff. Great work and thanks for bringing us along, cheers!
Great nightscapes ! These are the first I've seen taken with an astro-modified SONY.
The ways in which you used the Benro Geared Head:
1. Tracked panorama of the Milky Way core at Atacama.
2. Keeping the sun and moon centered during the total eclipse.
3. Panorama of the ALMA radio telescopes and the Milky Way.
Beautiful Alyn, now I want to spend the winter in Chile. Answers: 1. panorama rotation at the observatory 2. fine adjustment to keep the sun in the center, and 3. to mount the star tracker.
Always beautiful shots from you 👏🏻🏆👍😃
1. Panoramas
2. Polar alignment
3. Fine adjustments
Those are some incredible shots Alyn! Thanks for sharing. The one in the gorge was my favorite.
Arrrrggghhhh, this is making me want to go travelling so bad .... amazing video, well done.
3 uses: tracking the eclipse with fine adjustments at long focal lengths, fast and easy overlapping panos, and polar alignment for the sky tracker.
Keep the awesome content coming 👍
Absolutely speechless! Great work!
loving the Chile vlogs man... Cheers for the advice on the Move Shoot Move! I got mine and it really is a boss bit of kit! I'm just waiting for some decent time off to coincide with some clear skies so i can proper check it out.
For the benro competition the three ways you used the Geared head were for
-Polar Alignment
-Panorama's
-Fine tuning
Love From Ecuador....Alyn you are an amazing photographer!
Amazing shots as always Alan 👍🏻
The answers are:
For Panorama
For fine adjustments
And for Polar alignment
Thanks for the opportunity 😁✌🏻
Pictures are unreal. AW for the win!
Panoramas, Polar Alignment, and Fine Adjustments.
Loved the shots! Great video.
Polar alignment, panoramas, and fine adjustments!
Great photos!
great video with stunning shots
1. Used the gearhead to slowly track the eclipse.
2. Used it to do panoramas
3. Used it to help with polar alignment with the star trakker
That's awesome you are able to do a giveaway!
The three things you mentioned:
1) Panoramic shots (some of my favorite)
2) Fine adjustments
3) Ability to polar allign
Good luck and clear skies everyone! :D
Great video! That altitude sickness would've broken me lol.
3 uses:
1) Small/fine adjustments that allowed you to keep the sun in the centre of the frame
2) Makes the process of making a panorma much easier than when using a ballhead
plus no sag
3) Eases the polar alignment when using a tracker especially in southern hemisphere due to no Polaris.
AGAIN EPIC!!! Great education on the panorama mount! The Benro gear head looks great for a perfect level while sitting up lighter than a fluid head, looks better than a ball head! Also great example of the 2 week window for MW capture, yes a crescent moon (looking full), but if bad weather on the new moon able to go out early or later!!!
Inspiring as usual man!
Eclipse: minute adjustments for keeping sun and moon centered
Alma: easy 50% overlap for panoramas
Atacama: use as a mount for polar alignment
Awesome video from amazing location. High altitude sickness, that's dedication and commitment.
More precise adjustments, easier and faster panoramas, polar alignment.
This head looks really useful.
1. Fine adjustment
for the eclipse to keep framing and removing sag with heavy lenses
2. Panorama photography
to get the right amount of overlap
3. Replacement for a wedge base for Polar alignment again for reducing sag and increasing precision in pointing at the 'celestial south pole'
1 - To make minute adjustments to manually track the sun/moon in the centre of the frame with no saggy sag of the telephoto lens
2 - To make the pano of the telescopes easy in the dark by use of the degree markers for a decent overlap
3 - Used with the star tracker moveshootmove to polar align in the Southern hemisphere with use of the degree markers
Fingers crossed for everyone but more so for ME! 😏 the image of the milkyway dipping into the valley and the river leading to it was brilliant.
Thanks Alyn, thanks Benro!
Great vlog!
1) for panoramas
2) for polar alignment
3) for fine adjustments
Great episode Alyn! Loved the pano at 18:45!
Alma Observatory - horizontal pano
Solar eclipse - tracking the sun with a telephoto lens
Atacama Desert - polar alignment
For alignment
For adjustment
For panoramic images
Dude the Milky way looked pulchritudinous 💕
So glad to see your videos as always.
Keep up the good work mate 🤘
Getting the right polar equivalent alignement, panoramas, and easy fine tuning ajustements.
This channel is so underated. Your shots are amazing especially the moon-o-rama. !
Fine alignment of the tracker, macro (focus stacking), panoramic stitching and leveling.
Love the adventures you take us on, keep them coming! And glad you both recovered from the high altitudes so quickly. Safe travels!
Awesome pics. What an efffort. Will be heading that way next year. Hope I can shoot half descent pics.
Thanks for another damn great video. Cannot wait till next adventure! Regarding the Benro gear head usage:
1-Panoramas
2-Polar alingment
3-Fine adjustments
Yo, Love the pictures in this video... superb shots, Hope you guys are ok with altitude sickness. The Gear head you mainly used for 1. Polar alignment
2. Panoramas
3. Fine adjustment with degree labels.
Another great one Alyn
-polar adj.
-panoramic
-some fine tuning
Clear skyes💫
This was a truly remarkable video Alyn, one of your very best. It must be that beautiful southern hemisphere night sky that agrees with you ...!!! Well done, awesome images. Richard
Thanks a lot Richard. You've certainly got it good down there in the South!
I absolutely love your videos! Your work is phenomenal! And as for the answers for the benro head.....panoramic shots to overlap each shot, fine adjustments to keep sun/moon in shot, polar alignment! Thanks for the chance to win!
I had to pause the video in the last shot (18:44) to appreciate it a little longer, the colors are so beautiful, such an amazing photo, congratulations!
You used the Benro Geared Head in your videos to do panoramas, polar aligment with the tracker and fine adjustments.
Incredible to see the moon set, looked like day light. Definitely in my to do list, I know high levitation will be a challenge I’ll have to prepare for!
Great video as usual and some fantastic images.
Geared Head Uses:
1) Fine adjustment when using telephoto lens to keep sun in the center of the frame.
2) Creating a Panorama, ensuring each shot has 50% overlap even in low light.
3) When using a star tracker it allows for fine adjustment to ensure that it is polar aligned.
Hi Alyn, great video as usual!
The three uses for the Benro:
Fine tune the framing during solar eclipse
It makes easier to capture panoramas
Huge help in polar alignment of the tracker
Keep posting these videos! You helped me a lot to start with astrophotography!
Thanks.. And hope to see you again in Dolomites
Super crisp pano's Alyn, great vlog.
It’s like your work is on a geared head... taking it up a Degree of excellence every new VLOG!!!
1) minute adjustments for tracking the solar eclipse with a telescopic lens
2) better Panoramic photographs making sure the degree of over lap is correct
3) polar alignment for the MSM sky tracker
Cheers Alyn 👍🏻😁
Haha thanks Bryan
Always amazing content
1. Panoramas
2. Alignment and fine adjustments
3. Polar alignment
Some banger shot on this video ! Great job.
1- Easy Polar alignment. 2- easy 360 Panorama. 3- Easier fine tuning with long focal lens.
once again stunning video and photographs, inspirational.
Answers on a postcard
1) Panoramas
2) Polar alignments
3) Fine adjustments
Panoramas, Polar Alignment, and Fine Adjustments ,Great Video Alyn
Another amazing episode! The images were breathtaking!
Nice Video. Thank you
1. easier panoramas
2. Fine adjustments
3. polar alignment and equatorial wedge
Awesome video and photos from an awesome place!
You used the geared head to keep the sun in the center of the frame during the eclipse. At the observatory you used it for a panrorama (that's what I would do all the time with a good geared head). And finally you used the geared head to mount the star tracker and get the polar alignment.
Excellent job!
Answer: for panoramas, polar alignment and fine adjustments.
Amazing work as usual mate, that geared head looks very useful.
1. Micro adjustments to keep the sun in the frame for the eclipse.
2. Easier panoramas with the geared head.
3. Used it to align the star tracker.
Great shots, Alyn, I particularly liked the one with the four visible galaxies. Looks like you guys made the most of such a fantastic opportunity......
Mate .. some of your best vlogs to date, what an experience :-) Also kudos for fighting the altitude sickness!
For the competition
You used the Benro Geared head to,
Keep the sun in the middle of the frame for the eclipse with minute adjustments in two axes.
Rotate the camera a certain Number of degrees when creating the panorama at ALMA.
As a mount to do polar alignment with minute adjustments.
1 polar alignment
2 panoramas
3 fine adjustment
PS: admire your work so can't believe you are giving away gear 🙈 thank you 🔥
Alyn, awesome photos of the milky way, beautiful country Chile!
Beautiful shots! Kepp that benro gear in chile!!
1) take easier panoramas ahora.
2) polar alignment
3) precision for a perfectly shot