Unfortunately I can’t give you a set of magic settings, you need to work that out for yourself. There are so many variables even something as simple as how far north or south you are on the planet will change the settings you need.

@@focusphotonsfrugally6644 I understand, thanks for your response!

The app is called Photopils. Wider is always better, but because the 24mm f1.4G ED is for a full frame camera you might not gain much in field of view. I think that the 35mm lens I used in the video is sharper at f1.8 than the 24mm is at f1.4 so you may not gain any advantage for all of that extra money. Have you looked at the sigma 18-35mm f1.8 it has a really good reputation and is considerably cheaper and would be more useful in the long term.

@@focusphotonsfrugally6644 thanks a lot for taking time to reply!!

Thank you very much, waiting for the weather to be more cooperative.

The same way as you would set the iso to any other setting you would want.

Thank you very much.

Thanks Paul, yes I think this might be the worst spring ever, that I can recall. Thanks but I am a notoriously lazy star trailer and cheat, and darkness was giving way to dawn so the cider bottle shot wasn’t as good as I had envisioned. You know what it’s like to capture everything, timelapse to star trails plus vlog I could easily take ten cameras with me. Thanks for watching and I look forward to your next video.

Hey, D3300 is it any good?

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Thanks Keith, yes it felt like a once in a lifetime event to witness that. Hope you are well and getting some good camera time in.

Thank you, yes I will happily swap Milky Way shots for aurora. I don’t mind being thwarted like that. But I am itching to open my Milky Way core season properly. It feels like the moon and the rain seem intent on stopping me at the moment. Looking forward to your video.

Thank you very much. I hope you got to see the same display. It really felt like a once in a lifetime event, for me at least.

Thank you very much!

no I am not.

Yep can't wait to get back there soon for a milky way shot, thank you for watching and commenting.

Thanks Keith, yes agree completely. Thoughts are already turning to milky way. The core is starting to rise round dawn here now. Sorry I have some catching up to do with your videos!

@@focusphotonsfrugally6644 no rush man 😁 just on your own time!

Thanks for watching Paul, yep fingers crossed the weather improves very soon!

No.

The grain is caused by trying to record video in Less than ideal conditions, with probably the kit lens on. With the kit lens it needs to be very bright, like a sunny day. Indoors or in a shaded area like a forest even on a sunny day you will struggle because the camera will need to use such a high iso that it introduces that grain to the image. The only lens that you can record acceptable quality video with is the 35mm f1.8g use it at f1.8 to let in as much light as possible. You also probably want to shoot at 24 or 25 fps again to gather that extra bit of light. You need to use a shutter speed of 1/50s. The camera needs to be in manual. You need to focus manually because again in less than perfect conditions the autofocus will struggle. The D3200 can do reasonable quality 1080 if you know what you are doing and are prepared to learn. But ultimately nobody buys the D3200 to shoot video.

Thanks for the comment and thank you for watching, really appreciate it.

Thanks Keith, sometimes it's good to get the "money shot" it can be a good way to learn, to recreate. But, yes your right it does get boring.

Thank you for watching and your lovely comment.

Yes definitely worth it, a great camera to start and progress with.

@@focusphotonsfrugally6644 thnks bro

@@focusphotonsfrugally6644 sir i wan to ask something, which is better between canon eos 700d and nikon d3200

@@focusphotonsfrugally6644 this two same price ,but nikon got two lens Nikkor kit lens 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 and Nikkor lens 50mm f1.8

@@madarauchha9257 I am sorry I don’t know anything about that canon camera.

Yes I go to beachy head a lot, but I usually walk out to the lighthouse at low tide. Nobody will disturb you out there Thanks for watching and commenting.

Good tip mate. Gotta try that one. Thanks for the video and a reply.

Thanks for your comment Keith. I often wonder about deep space astro, and wonder if light pollution might be less of an issue there. I presume probably wrongly the ratio of space to atmosphere tips in your favour.

Thank you Paul, it’s surprising what you can get away with, I think with light pollution half the problem is how much moisture is in the air. I was attempting a shot over Portsmouth the other night, there was so much moisture in the air, it seemed to make the light pollution worse, like the light was bouncing around in the moisture and spreading it further and making it hard to see through.

Thank you!

Thank you very much.

Which lens?

@@focusphotonsfrugally6644 the 16-50 dx lens used in your video. i also have the Nikon Z5 and am trying to work around the 1.7x crop in 4k. thank you !

@@hypershwoosh3831 The 16-50 dx kit lens is a Z mount, so it goes straight on. Recently I have been using the Nikon 20mm f1.8g lens with the ftz adapter. That lens works really well for me I can use it on my Z50 in 4K with no crop, and that give me a 30mm equivalent on that camera. Then when I put the same lens on my Z5 with that crop in 4K I still end up around 30mm ish. I find that to be a nice feild of view for most things. I would personally avoid having to use the ftz adapter and older lenses. They are just not as good as the newer Z specific lenses. The ftz adapter is a massive pain. Plus the older lenses don’t deal with flare, and are noticeably slower to focus. Noisy while focusing and more likely to miss focus or loose focus while filming.

Great start to the new year thanks Keith. and a Happy New year to you as well.

Thank you! Hope you have a fantastic new year.

I agree Keith, it’s great to travel when you get the chance. But it is easy to forget what we have on our doorstep is just as good. When I travel around locally I am always looking, actually properly looking, what’s behind that wall, what’s that over there. How can I photograph the ordinary and make it look amazing.