>>3797889>Actually thinking about your post more, if you aren't taking a tracking mount with you, why would you even bother with the minute advantages an astro-modded camera brings?I'm picking up a lot more of the colors that I wouldn't normally see and more detail too. This is an uncropped image shot in JPEG with the Ra+RF85mmL lens on a fixed tripod and it's a 6 second exposure (to reduce star trails). I have edited the image for saturation/contrast/levels but I didn't have to add anything to it. No NR and no sharpening either. It's not stacked. The only area that required a little bit of effort to lift the color was the blue hue in Rho Ophiuchus.
I've shot this region before with a Canon 6D (an astro favorite by many) and never managed to capture this amount of color or detail before. This area of the Milky Way is hidden from me at the moment but I'd like to try it again mid-year with a longer exposure with a smaller aperture to get a reduction on the stars.
I DID have to make a minor flare correction to the bright orange star (Antares) - although this was shot fairly wide open at f/1.4.
*I should have tried harder to set the white balance in sunlight before taking this image.