>>2710862what's cool about astrophoto is that you have a big variety of objects, from very small to very big, and very faint to very bright. You can take milky way shots with your kit lens, try to expose longer and longer. And if you really like it, buy a telescope and start trying to take pictures of deep sky objects or planets.
I started with my Canon 1100D, my dad's old 200mm lens, and I tripod. Then I bought my first scope, a f/12 cassegrain. Its a light, inexpensive, small telescope. I bought a T2 ring to connect my camera to it. I took my first shots of the moon and saturn with this. But I was limited by the exposure time, because this scope had no tracking, and I wanted to shoot deep sky objects. I then bought a better mount with tracking (EQ5). I shot my first nebulae and galaxies witht this (M42, andromeda, M33 etc). But a f/12 is not very good for deep sky, so I upgraded to a f/5, heavier and bigger reflector telescope. (its still less expensive than a good telephoto lens! about 1200€ for the scope and mount). With this tracking mount and this scope I started taking longer exposures (60 to 90 second) and was able to see more details in my objects. The next step was to upgrade my camera (to full frame) and buy filters to remove the light pollution. Thats pretty much where I'm at now.
My current setup is: 200/1000mm Skywatcher telescope, Canon 6D, EQ5 mount, Astronomik CLS filter for light pollution. DeepSkyStacker software to stack my images.
sorry for poor english.
