Larry Colen wrote: Inspired by actually being able to see it in photos with the FA77 I had a go at photographing the Orion nebula.
Here it is with the bigma, 500mm, wide open at f/6.7, ISO 800, astrotracer only seems to work up to about 10 seconds at 500mm. However, that beats the rule of 600 by a factor of 8. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/31373955206/in/album-7215767580139190 1/ For those that are interested in my experimentation, here's the full album. It was cloudy when I got to the top of bear creek, so the first few are a bit artsy fartsy. Using the fluidr link so you can see the exif. The photos are cropped pretty tight: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157675801391901 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Lovely gallery, but by a nose 31459 for me. Malcolm -- 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.
