Shooting Astrophotography with the Panasonic S5

The panasonic s5 is the PERFECT camera to shoot astrophotography and aurora photos. Coupled with the Saamyang/rokinon 14mm lens you can get some really amazing results! In this video I go over the settings that I use to capture these photos.
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[@JamesEscobar]

Lovely shots, lovely country, and lovely hobby! Thanks for sharing!

[@givebackdocumentaryproduct5981]

Beautiful shots Corey.Nice job 👍

[@RoryandCasey]

Thanks!

[@carriebarnes118]

So helpful! Thank you for making this video

[@RoryandCasey]

No worries! Glad you found it useful!

[@bensneen]

Greeting from Minnesota! Great video thanks for making it. I just got my S5 back from being full spectrum modified and can't wait to see how it works for milky way photography.

[@RoryandCasey]

Awesome! I'd love to see the results when you've taken some!

[@professorparks5543]

Thanks! Lots of great tips in this video!

[@RoryandCasey]

Thanks for watching!

[@BrettADay]

Nice video. Great images. I’m looking forward to shooting astro with my s5 here soon.

[@RoryandCasey]

Awesome Brett! It's such a good astro camera!

[@TravelTourTaste]

Hello Rory we hope all is well I am so pleased to see that you are back to uploading vlogs thanks for sharing we have missed you these last 2 months Stay safe my friend Love and Light Sarah and Glenn

[@RoryandCasey]

Thanks so much guys for sticking around! You stay safe too!

[@IslandFilmMaker]

Thx mate! Well done!!

[@eenzyme898]

Great video! I’m also using s5 and I have a problem when I manually focus in long exposure. It’s hard to get the focus peak show up when the shutter speed is 10 second or above. Do you have any tip to solve that?

[@Busterberk]

Great video mate ✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼

[@RoryandCasey]

Thanks 👍

[@Stone1108]

You deserve more subs, found your presentation very informative and well paced with great useful detail. I’m a LUMIX fanboy for good reason but I use the ff S1R, I guess the S1 will return similar Astro images technically as the S5, what do you recon? I’m going to have buy a used body specifically for Astro so a bit torn between the s5 and S1. My widest lens is the pano 16-35 f4 so guess a faster lens is on the cards too. Enjoyed your video, thanks for making it and putting it out there. 👏📸

[@RoryandCasey]

Thanks mate! For photography the S5 and S1 will be pretty much identical. If you were going to do any video the S5 comes loaded with Vlog already and you have to pay more on the S1 to unlock it if that's a factor for you. Otherwise it would just be what feels better in hand for you. F4 may be a bit slow but it'd be worth at least giving it a crack before getting something faster. You can push the iso surprisingly far in these cameras for astro which may counteract the lost stops your aputure.

[@Stone1108]

@@RoryandCasey Thanks Rory, recon you’re right, one step a time, gear just runs away with your money otherwise. The S5 seems to make sense with it video capability I guess. All the best and a happy new year.

[@RashanToyaTravel]

Rory I'm about to get this camera because you have convinced me that much😂. 6 more subs for 1k! Nice work rory.

[@RoryandCasey]

Nice one! I just bought another one for my business too 🤣 Hope you guys have been good and keeping safe!

[@ElMoussaouy]

Nice shots, I have the S5 too. Do you take on spot dark images (lens cap on) with the same settings for post NR?

[@RoryandCasey]

Honestly I don't find that the S5 needs much if any noise reduction.

[@benjaminkenney9186]

Great stuff

[@RoryandCasey]

Thanks mate!

[@FeatherzMcGraw]

Came here looking for S5 astro info and spent most of it looking at those aurora shots :D.

[@RoryandCasey]

We're lucky in Tassie to get some great auroras

[@calmrelaxed7425]

I went for the Sigma 14-24mm F 2.8 for my S5. I am hoping to get some great shots with it from the top of Mt Buffalo soon.

[@RoryandCasey]

You definitely will! That's an amazing lens you have got your hands on!

[@ypwu1]

Thanks for sharing. I had s5m2 and TTArtisan 11mm F2.8. I am planing travel to Tassie on Easter and stay around 10 days. Is it good time for astrophotography and aurora?

[@RoryandCasey]

For the Aurora you just never know. It’s all to do with flares from the sun which aren’t very predictable. We normally only know a few days before whether it’s likely to happen or not unfortunately. Keep your eye on the Aurora alert pages to see whether they are likely.

[@peter.majercik]

can you please post reduction needed to get if using Saamyang 14mm with this Panasonic S5? thank you

[@RoryandCasey]

Do you mean noise reduction? I generally don't need to add much if any at all if I keep the iso low enough like below 6400 is very clean.

[@tomd4260]

Any screen lag issues

[@johnpeters4801]

I've had my S5 out a few times now at night but I haven't been able to get the Starlight feature to work. Have you had it work?

[@RoryandCasey]

I normally shoot stars using the standard long exposure techniques. I haven't tried any features for shooting stars.

[@johnpeters4801]

@@RoryandCasey This feature is supposed to automatically focus to the stars. According to the manual, If the camera detects stars after determining low illumination AF, then Starlight AF will be activated. Then a special icon is supposed to show up in the view finder. I've never gotten the icon to appear.... so I just try do the manual focus thing

[@RoryandCasey]

Ahhhh gotcha. My Astro lens is fully manual which is why I've probably never seen it show up.

[@johnpeters4801]

@@RoryandCasey I'm thinking my Sigma lens that I got with the camera will suddenly become a manual when the stars come out. :) PS thanks for the great video!

[@denis5850]

hello, I just bought an s5 today and I have a problem in low light the screen lags to death as if I was at 10 fps do you have the same problem? You can check my KZbin Chanel i posted a video of the problem ( I tried to disable the exposure preview but nothing work)

[@tomd4260]

I have the same problem.

[@FJano12]

How can I attach this camera to a telescope?

[@RoryandCasey]

No idea sorry!