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Wife gifted me a MSM Nomad tracker for my birthday. Didn't use it yet, and probably only will next spring/summer. She knows I like to do starry skies pictures and she knows I like hiking, she comes with me sometimes. So that small tracker is a sensible gift, low weight and compact, with its own limitations. I didn't consider a tracker before as I simply do wide angle milky way shots while using stacking, pic related. Not sure if a tracker is worth it for that when stacking does the job, but maybe it's better. Still, it offers some new possibilities.
As I'm usually hiking for multiple days, I tend to only bring what's necessary. The tracker itself weights quite a bit, but means I might get away with less lenses and slower, lighter, tinier ones. Especially as I don't need them to be fast for the landscape dayshots.
Could the tracker let me get away with a one-lens slowass zoom solution like the newer Sigma 20-200 f3.5-6.3 or Tamron 25-200 f2.8-5.6?
That way I still could to wide angle milky way shots (could always do them with stacking anyway), and maybe try to play with big shit like Andromeda/Orion? Or will I suffer too much?
Yeah I understand I should combine both a tracker and a 135mm f1.8 or 200mm f2.0 bazooka for the best results (the small tracker wouldn't handle it well anyway), but I don't want to buy such a pricey lens that won't get much use.
