Thanks for posting that. I've been toying with the idea of trying some star trails and every little bit of info helps.
Have you considered using image stacking to produce longer trails? Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:56 -0600, "Charles Robinson" <[email protected]> wrote: > I've never really done a lot of nighttime long-exposure work with digital > because I thought it wasn't possible (too much noise, battery life, etc). > However, when I was trying to shoot the Leonid meteor shower a few weeks > ago I did some experimenting and found that it works pretty well. > Shooting RAW, I can leave the "dark-frame subtraction" feature off and > just let the Adobe RAW converter remove the bright/hot pixels for me > automatically. That opens up a world of possibility (and shortens all > that time you would otherwise have to wait for that 2nd exposure to be > taken). > > This past weekend I was out at a bonfire with family. At one point I > went up to the top of the hill, set up the K10D, and locked it open. > Then I went back to the bonfire and enjoyed their company for a while. > Forgot about the camera actually.... then went back up and closed the > shutter. > > 12.5 minutes later (oops! longer than planned), I have a > slightly-overexposed photo of the sky (full moon that night) with the > nice swirly circles going around Polaris. There was a small town just > north of us, so that made the horizon kinda bright too. > > http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2009/IMGP6866-2.jpg > > It's not much.. if I'd had more time to experiment I'm sure I could have > done better. > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web -- 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.
