very cool setup he has, wish I had that kinda money for a camera kit
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert Tait <[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] Date: Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:38 PM Subject: [Texascavers] Fwd: Re: Astronomy Picture of the Day To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] 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]
