I don't doubt that it's been edited. If it was shot in RAW it would have to be at least converted to JPEG for the video, however almost every photo you see, regardless of whether it was shot on digital or on film, goes through some sort of processing. Either to adjust exposure levels, doge and burn, or fuss with the tone curves.

But in all reality, if you know what you're doing and are in an area with little to no light pollution, these shots are easy to pull off.

It's a solid body, minus the auto focus issues. But if you're not shooting events or fast paced action all the time, it won't ever matter to you. I may buy one myself soon.

Wait till mid March. Canon is announcing a new version of the 5D, so the price on the MkII will drop. As it is you can find them in good condition used for around $2,000 or less right now.

You don't need anything special for this. Just a half decent camera body and a reasonably wide lens depending on your sensor size. Beyond that, a good, sturdy tripod (in this case, however, the photographer used a camera slider/dolly), and a remote with an intervalometer function so you can take images repeatedly without having to press any buttons.

Nope, not mine. Although I am a photographer, I don't do much time lapse or astrophotography, although that's something I plan on changing in the near future as it's always interested me.

From the Vimeo page (which you can find here: http://vimeo.com/36684976 )

Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 60D Canon 16-35, Tokina 11-16

Shot in RAW format. Manual mode, Exposure was 30 seconds on most Milky Way shots, 15-30 seconds on Aurora. ISO 1600 - 6400 F2.8. 3 second intervals between exposures

The Aurora were shot in central South Dakota in September 2011 and near Madison, Wisconsin on October 25, 2011.

Most of the video was shot near the White River in central South Dakota during September and October 2011, there are other shots from Arches National Park in Utah, and Canyon of the Ancients area of Colorado during June 2011.

Not sure what you mean by that. Care to elaborate?

Same here.

Don't worry, what this boils down to is that it's someone that takes a social news website way too seriously. He's angry because people don't give him the respect he deserves, dammit! Didn't you know he's the number two commenter here?

I've hated reddit for a while now, but I keep going back to a few of the smaller subs that I really enjoy. There's rarely any good content in the default subs, and if there is, the comments are generally worthless. So now I'm here in the hopes that I can find decent discussion and entertaining, thought provoking content, and the first thing I see is this whiny little baby crying about imaginary internet points and getting upset because a stranger on the nets had the audacity to say something he didn't like. At the top of the page. Kind of a bad sign, but it's not going to push me away immediately.