On 3 Sep 1999, Christopher Biggs wrote:
:Acer Victoria <siddim01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> moved upon the face of the 'Net and
spake thusly:
:
:>
:> So with 400ASA, 50/1.4MC wide open, I can shoot at 1/15sec and get
:> points?
:
:Yeah, but stop down a bit for sharpness.
Right-O, then. I'll start at f/2.8 and stop down from there while
increasing time.
:> Do you advise wideopen or stopped down lens? Uhm, colors? What colors? If
:> I try /really/ hard, I can see some stars a just a /wee/ bit red, and
:> others are /wee/ blue; is that what you referred to? On a slide?
:> Yow.
:
:The human eye has amazingly poor colour response at low intensities.
:
:You'll find that on film, the colours of starlight are splendidly
:vivid and varied.
:
:One thing about slides vs. negs for starfields---on my slide shots I
:saw the constellations wonderfully, because the dimmer stars hardly
:registered. On negative film you have a much wider contrast range,
:and get considerably more stars.
Haven't decided yet if this is a good thing or not <G>.
:> Yea; last roll had nine bracketed exposures of a full moon in
:> clouds and the resulting halo. In big bold capital letters I printed
:
:Moon is tricky. Getting good moon shots is *much* harder than
:starfields. Getting moon shots with anything else recognizable is way
:hard.
Which is why I ran the gamut of apertures at one shutter speed. I was
hoping to digitally overlay one on the other (getting both the details in
the seas and the halo).
:Have you seen Adams' famous "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico"? That
:negative is almost unprintable. Only split intensification and thirty
:years of experimentation got the prints that sell for thousands now.
No, I haven't.
:> "please do not correct; print 18 0rey; bracketed exposures, print
:> UNCORRECTED". Went to the big Fuji place. Yup, no prints. The negs show
:
:Unless you can go to your lab and say "G'day Jim, how's Cheryl and the
:kids? Got some star-shots for you today, see you tomorrow as usual?"
:you won't get happy results from negatives.
I guess that means local stores...Redlands Camera.
:The "uncorrected" print is a myth, IMAO.
Mind explaining this bit? TIA
/Acer "steppenwolf" Victoria
--
"I look to you / How you carry on / When all hope is gone / Can't you see
/ Your optimistic eyes / Seem like paradise / To someone like / Me / ..."
--Depeche Mode
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