How I Shoot Star Trails with the Pentax K1! 

Never tried star trails but after seeing this video I really need to give it a go. I'll wait for my next coast trip though as there is just too much light pollution where I live. My K1 has been sitting in a cupboard for the last 3years as it was getting a bit heavy to hold after an arm injury and I started using Fuji X-T2 / 3. Armed with a new sturdy tripod and my 3 favourite Samyang manual lenses - 14mm F2.8, 20mm F1.8 and 35mm F1.4 - it's time to get out with it at night again!

I am a K70 user upgraded from K50. I am planning on an astrophotography trip with my friend, and I found out your video when I was searching for intervalometer adapter cable for my K70. The invervalometer feature on the K70 is the same as the K1 and just enough for what I need. Thanks a lot for the video!

Learned something from this video, didnt know you could set it under 2sec i have a k70.

Awesome. Will definately look at other videos and look forward to more. Colin South Africa. Pentax K1 User

Great video. My k70 has the same functionality and same intervalometer menu system, so your video was an ideal step by step tutorial for me. Looking forward to going out to get some images. Need clear skies though, and I'm in Scotland, so might take a while. Lol.

Thanks for the great tutorials on night time photography with the K1. I never realized the camera can do so much, this is really helpful. For one thing I don't need to use my tracking mount to do astro photography.

Great video, clear and informative, thanks for taking the time to record this

I have the Pentax K70 and the Pentax K3-11 both have the intervalumter built in and I agree about bulb mode should have intervalumter access

Agreed, K1 is awesome, been with Pentax 35mm and medium format 645 for over 25 years, no plans to switch, would not have the heart anyway, I'm too deep :). Even adapted some of my Pentax/Takumar lenses for video to work with BMPCC4K. Your process is exactly what I do, well explained. I always enjoy your episodes, just wanted to say thank you, you're doing great job and it is appreciated.

Love the video :)) gonna try it today with my K-70

Hi Tim. Thank you very much for your fantastic tutorials on youtube. I'm following them with great interest. I own a K-1, FA 31mm, and an Irix 15mm F2.4. I'm eager to try the Milky Way and also star trails. Your channel is the ideal place to get started. Thanks so much! Angelo

very useful!

Thank you great video I shoot with a case 70 which has the same software Use pretty well the same settings.

Like it 👍🏻👍🏻

Thanks for another great video on Pentax! I like doing astro photography and thinking about switching to Pentax. I read somewhere that the internal intervalometer cannot be used when make use of the astrotracer. May I know how you manage to take a series of images while using astrotracer? Thanks in advance!

Heading out Monday night to give this a try with the 31mm lens or the FA20mm lens. I believe it's a new moon, so not much light to worry about. What would be a good starting point for aperture & ISO at 30 second intervals, using in-camera compositing function? Seems like the first shot is a guessing game, but you have to wait 40 minutes to get the results. Is there a faster way to determine correct exposure/settings?

Hi thanks for the advice can you kindly advice me how to cancel INT in my Pentax k1? i activated it but now i cant cancel it even though switching cam off wont work will appreciate your support

Great explanation! what happend about the interval of shots? 500 is the limit. How is possible take more than 500 shots? Thanks a lots.

hi man, great vid.thanks What focal length do you use?

do you use AWB? setting up my U3 for starting point for a star trail

Hello, I recently tried out doing star trails with my new(to me) K1 using info from this video. I was wondering if you have a link to the intervalometer you suggest to use with the K1. It seems they are not as readily available as they are for other brands.

How do you deal with starlink pollution?