On Nov 17, 2009, at 23:07, Tim Bray wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yeah - ended up at about 400, actually. Set the ISO too low >> and the meteorites don't show up. But it didn't matter, the predicted >> peak here never occurred. Sat outside in 36-degree (Fahrenheit) >> weather from 00:30-2:00 and saw.. 6. >> >> Not really worth the effort. > > Untrue. You have notably increased your Real Photographer Karma. > Everyone knows that the experience of undergoing painful tedium in > search of an image that you don't get is much purer than those times > when you actually capture the shot. Because this way you can imagine > at length how great it would have been. -T >
.. Better to have tried, and had nothing happen - than to have slept through what would certainly have been the storm of the century. Part of me feels that by being out there, I prevented the shower from occurring! Kind of like when I go to a baseball game and always seem to make the local team lose. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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.
