On 29/08/2007, Brian Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > My attempts at photographing last night's eclipse seem to have struck similar > problems to others - noisy images that, in my case, looked abysmal at full > totality. > > The only answer was to reduce the size of the images and make a composite. > All told I took about 50 photos from start to finish of the eclipse - the > composite is made up of 20. > > I used a Tamron SP 300 mm lens plus 2x converter at shot at ISO 800 to try to > keep movement of the moon during the exposures to a minimum.
If that was a failure then you made an impressive recovery, it looks like it should be on one of those astro photo of the day pages ;-) Nicely done. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
