2009/6/23 Brian Walters <[email protected]>: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:20 +0800, "David Savage" <[email protected]> > wrote: >> G'day All, >> >> Yet another of the southern night sky: >> >> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/disavage/3653997460/> >> >> Direct link (~120kb) >> >> <http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2352/3653997460_d59aee4f4c_o.jpg> >> >> D700, AF-D 20mm f2.8, 20min @ f5.6, ISO 200. Artistic licence with the >> WB. > > > > Spectacular! > > I'm going to have to have a crack at some star trails. I figure that it > just might be possible to get an equivalent 20 min exposure with the > 200D using a series of short exposures and image stacking software > (sounds plausible in theory, anyway....).
Stacking works. You can also test the camera. Put the lens cap & viewfinder blind on and take a series of long dark frame exposures (start at 5min and work up) that will give you an idea of how much noise & "amp glow" you'll have to contend with. > BTW - I didn't have a clue where Cue is so I Googled it. Looks to have > some interesting old buildings from the gold mining days. Did you get > any photos of them? The group I was travelling with just stayed long enough for dinner at the loacl pub so I didn't get to have a good explore. Also we were chasing that thunder storm. But from what i saw it was a typical (for WA) gold mining town. Keep York in mind when you're over. It's only a couple of hours out of Perth and very historical. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
