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That guy on the astrophotography forum told me to ditch my intervalometer
Been shooting nightscapes for about a year. Asked on here about getting star trails and this user "NebulaFool" said my cheap intervalometer was introducing noise. Told me to just use the camera's built-in interval mode instead. I ignored him for 3 months because I spent $40 on that thing. Finally tried it last month during the Perseids. No joke, my shots came out cleaner. Less random hot pixels. Ever had someone give you advice that went against what you bought?
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robert_bell20d ago
My buddy paid two hundred bucks for a fancy tripod head and kept using it even though his panoramic shots were all crooked. It's like when people buy expensive tools and then refuse to even consider that the free method might work better. We get attached to stuff we spent money on, and that attachment blinds us to the truth sometimes.
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michael_coleman1020d ago
Read an article about something called sunk cost fallacy and it basically explains exactly what you're talking about. People throw good money after bad because they already spent the cash and can't let it go. Your buddy's crooked panoramas are the perfect example, that tripod head was a waste from the start but he couldn't admit it.
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