A good Milky Way photo can be absolutely stunning, and there are a number of fantastic ways to incorporate it into landscapes or even portraits. This fantastic video will show you lots of great tips for improving your Milky Way photos.
Coming to you from Borrow Lenses, this great video features lots of helpful tips for improving your Milky Way images. The Milky Way is a fantastic subject that can make for great images on its own or a way to spruce up landscape photos or even a nighttime portrait. Of course, the difficult part about shooting the Milky Way is the extremely low levels of light, necessitating wide apertures and high ISOs. What makes it all the more difficult is that the Earth's rotation limits how long of a shutter speed you can use without experiencing motion blur. You could use an equatorial mount that cancels out the rotation of the planet, but that is quite a bit more involved and introduces rotation and motion blur to the landscape if you are including that, making it tricky to composite things. Though these shots can be difficult, they are well worth the results. Check out the video above for the full rundown!
Any camera will do really. You just need to have a wide enough lens to play with. First time I took an astro shot it was with a Canon G9 X Mk II 1-inch sensor pocket camera. I was pretty amazed by what I got out of that little sucker. This is 8 seconds f/2 ISO 1600...
It is true that Astrophotography is less about the camera used. But if a old/small sensor is used at least stacking images is needed to get somewhat clean images. The image below is taken with a Sony a58 SLT, but with stacking (and some tracking). Replacing the foreground is not really difficult here.