Taking astronomical images is only one part of the fun...
I enjoy trying out all sorts of equipment as well. The last 10 years I have had many instruments, ranging from my beloved 80mm TMB refractor up to APO refractors from Takahashi, Astro-Physics, William Optics and TMB - but also Vixen VISAC, many Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrains, Intes Micro Maksutov-Cassegrains and Maksutov-Newton and several sizes of Takahashi Mewlon Cassegrains. I try to minimize the astronomical cost of many high end telescopes by getting them on the used market and re-selling them after a while. I consider the potential small loss involved in these transactions as a renting fee for the telescope :)

APO's are my main instruments for deep-sky and solar photography, while my preferred instrument for planets (in our unsteady lowland skies) is still the Celestron C9.25 telescope. It offers a good balance of weight, cost and useability for high resolution.

For deep-sky imaging I use CCD camera's from SBIG. My current one - and I definitely like it a lot - is the square-format STL4020. This camera offers to me the right balance of field of view, low noise and small pixel size for my shorter focal length APO's. I have also used STL11000, ST10XE, Starlight Xpress SXV-H9 and ATIK 16HR cameras. On the high resolution front, since I discovered DMK industrial camera's in 2005, I don't look back. They offer again a perfect balance of cost and functionality.

For a recent view on what instruments are currently in use, I refer to the image log section on this website.