Today I shoot with a Gary Honis full spectrum modified Canon T1i. I use it for everything from astro-imaging to Infra-red, to traditional photography.  To make this full spectrum camera do all these things I use several &#8220;clip-in&#8221; filters from Astronomik that converts the camera to the desired spectrum: OWB &#8211; Original White Balance for restoring the camera to &#8220;factor&#8221; behavior L UV-IR Block &#8211; For Astro imaging in dark sites with little to no light pollution CLS-CCD &#8211; For Astro imaging in suburban sites with  <span><a href="https://casazza.net/Home/index.php/photo-equipment" class="readmore">Continue reading &rarr;</a></span>{"id":67,"date":"2014-03-05T02:06:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T02:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casazza.net\/Home\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2025-01-01T18:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T23:14:22","slug":"photo-equipment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/casazza.net\/Home\/index.php\/photo-equipment","title":{"rendered":"Cameras and such"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I shoot with a <a title=\"Gary Honis\" href=\"http:\/\/garyhonislegacy.com\/\">Gary Honis<\/a> full spectrum modified Canon T1i. I use it for everything from astro-imaging to Infra-red, to traditional photography. \u00a0To make this full spectrum camera do all these things I use several &#8220;clip-in&#8221; filters from Astronomik that converts the camera to the desired spectrum:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OWB &#8211; Original White Balance for restoring the camera to &#8220;factor&#8221; behavior<\/li>\n<li>L UV-IR Block &#8211; For Astro imaging in dark sites with little to no light pollution<\/li>\n<li>CLS-CCD &#8211;\u00a0For Astro imaging in suburban sites with light\u00a0pollution<\/li>\n<li>Planet IR Pro 742 &#8211; For Infra Red only imaging<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As with most DSLR owners I also have a few lenses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Canon EF 28-135mm USM<\/li>\n<li>Canon EF 70-300mm USM<\/li>\n<li>Canon EFS 18-55mm IS (modified to work with clip in filters)<\/li>\n<li>Olympus OM Zuiko 30-75mm (full manual lens)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My kit includes a few other goodies like an adapter to let me mount the Olympus lens backward to create a macro lens with the ability to focus as close as 1&#8243; from the subject, a basic flash unit, wired remote intervalometer, A\/C battery replacement, and of course the home made &#8220;cooler box&#8221; to refrigerate the camera when taking astro-images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/content-sidebar.php","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-67","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casazza.net\/Home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casazza.net\/Home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casazza.net\/Home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casazza.net\/Home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casazza.net\/Home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casazza.net\/Home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/casazza.net\/Home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casazza.net\/Home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}