Damn it, I guess I get to spend my G.W. money on a new camera. Here I was planing on sending it to some poor wall street CEO out of a job floating on their golden parachute.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Robert Tait <[email protected]> wrote: > Makes plenty of sense to me. When you can push camera sensitivity to ISO > 4K, miracles can happen. > > See Below: > > > Delivered-To: [email protected] >> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:31:56 -0700 >> From: "Wally Pacholka" <[email protected]> >> To: "Robert Tait" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day >> >> Robert, >> It's a real photograph using a modern digital camera 20d, 5A, new >> rebel all work, iso 1600 cranked to 4000 or so, less than 30 sec >> exposure to freeze the stars as points, f/1.6 with 30mm lens or so, >> cresent moon setting to light the landscape, flashlights.strope to >> light the inside of the cave, 5 trips there at 1200 miles round trip >> each - no kidding, 2 mile hike with last park being down a very steep >> canyon wall, getting lost each time coming out each of the 5 times and >> hard skin to fend off the you faked it in photoshop do nothing >> armchair folk, plus 40 years experience and a high degree of crazyness >> to get the perfect shot that few people will believe anyway. >> My reward - knowing I got the shot of a lifetime - APOD 29th times, >> TIME-LIFE Pic of year 3x, etc... >> Wally Pacholka (search) >> >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Robert Tait <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Wally, >> > >> > Recently your picture of the nebula from inside a cave created quite a >> bit >> > of buzz with the Texas caving community, with lots of speculation on how >> you >> > shot it. >> > >> > Film... Digital... Cooled... Photoshopped... and so on. >> > >> > If you have the time an inclination, it would be great if you could >> share >> > the details of what equipment you used and what technique you used to >> take >> > it.. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > Robert Tait >> > (Now a New York Caver) >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Wally Pacholka >> Night Sky Gallery >> 562-397-0591 Cell >> 562-268-4291 Fax >> [email protected] >> Web site: darkskygallery >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
