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Re: [OM] OK, tripod opinion time.

Subject: Re: [OM] OK, tripod opinion time.
From: " orink" <orink@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 20:49:37 -0700
Cc: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
   Great Comments on this useful thread, Folks:

  @ All... How about using various thicknesses and densities of foam pads on 
which your whole tiny Tripod/camera is placed.  Then shooting at various higher 
ISOs to minimize needed exposure time so as to lessen star trailing effect.  
Having recently destroyed my trusty AstroTrac, I have been using such a setup 
with regular tripods to get some useable comet shots as "proof-of-concept"  
Click back through my recent Flickr Photostream about 24 photos to see my 
attempts at capturing an elusive comet - C/2014 E2 Jaques - using a 180mm 
Tamron f 2.8 lens on an E-330, with red dot shotgun sight for a finder, to 
capture the area of the sky that "contained" the comet having first found it 
with Canon 15 x 50 stabilized binos; noting near-by star patterns with the 
binos, then using chosen near-by star clusters and small, but recognizable, two 
and three star patterns later located on my computer screen to find this very 
dim, almost tail-less comet.  Some pink arrows have been added to help point 
 out the features of interest on the photos.  It was sort of a "poor man's" 
star-hopping technique.  the tiny-url link to my photostream is - 
http://flic.kr/ps/xUCPt


  I went to Vietnam on a troop ship under excellent starry skies during a 33 
day voyage with minimal wave action.  There were plenty of dark upper deck 
locations that could have been used for night sky photos, but I was 
"with-out-portfolio", camera-wise, until we hit the beach... and the base PX... 
in Chu Lai, Vietnam near Da-Nang.

  One of my many wishes has been to volunteer some of my remaining usefulness 
to a remote island like Palmyra.  It's on an old navy base from WWII, and a few 
6 month US government assignments are available for several types of 
biologists, medical, and maintenance personnel.    :)
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--- ken@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

From: Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] OK, tripod opinion time.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 11:23:22 -0500

As with the others, I would probably not take a tripod on the cruise
for the cruise itself. However, one of those really dinky tripod
dohickies that fit inside of a camera bag? Absolutely. They are
fantastic as you can use them to set up a camera on a table or
something. They are pocket sized and simply wonderful for the odd time
you need an option like that.

Where a real tripod comes in handy is at the end of the cruise if you
take a day or two and go explore in a rental car before catching the
return flight back to the lower-48.

But seriously, you just need something small and pocketable as you can
always find something tall to prop it up on.

Every ship has one common trait which ruins your tripod pictures. It
isn't the gentle rolling motion as cruise ships have really good
stability systems, but it's the vibration from the engines and
propellers. They keep getting better all the time--especially the ones
with the electric-drive pod systems. The hull will also hum in some
conditions.

I'm with Chris on this one. Other than the Inside Passage, there isn't
a cruise that interests me in any way, shape or form. And if I DID go
on a cruise, I'd seek out the very smallest ship available. There are
private charters that I would consider for the Inside Passage.

-- 
Ken Norton
ken@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.zone-10.com
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