On Sunday, October 16, 2011 5:12 PM, "John Sessoms" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I gave the night photography thing a trial with the K20D last night 7pm > to midnight. I'll find out whether I can do anything with the K20D. > > Set my camera on the tripod locked down good & tight, ISO 400, manual > exposure 30sec, 16-55 @ 16mm f/5.6, remote release with 3 sec delay. > > Trip the shutter with the remote and wait until the the preview popped > up on the LCD & hit the remote again. I figure that gave me an exposure > about every minute & 5 sec; about 52 frames per hour. I ended up with > about 254 frames. > > I've got them downloading to my (other) computer and I still have to > figure out how I'm going to batch process the files for best effect, but > I think I'm going to see if I can put them together into one of those > little mini-movies of the stars wheeling "overhead".
I'd be interested to hear how that worked. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again -- 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.
