Re: The Milky Way

2023-06-25 Thread Bill
On 6/25/2023 7:38 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: Looks like you have it under control.. that's beautiful! ann Thanks Ann. It is pretty, but it's far from the technical perfection I am after.' bill https://flic.kr/p/2oKr3QE enjoy bill -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe s

Re: The Milky Way

2023-06-25 Thread Bill
On 6/25/2023 5:22 AM, Alan C wrote: Not bad at all, Bill! I've tried a few along the same lines (albeit with only my humble K5 & kit lens) & soon realised that there is a considerable learning curve. I found that the biggest hassle was extraneous light but, with the ongoing load shedding in SA,

Re: The Milky Way

2023-06-25 Thread Bill
On 6/25/2023 2:45 AM, Larry Colen wrote: On Jun 25, 2023, at 12:27 AM, Bill wrote: Continuing with my rather scattershot approach to learning dark sky photography... This was shot with the K1 and A15/3.5 using the Astrotracer. f4.5, 39 seconds @ ISO 3200 Comments and hints about how to do t

Re: The Milky Way

2023-06-25 Thread ann sanfedele
Looks like you have it under control.. that's beautiful! ann On 6/25/2023 3:27 AM, Bill wrote: Continuing with my rather scattershot approach to learning dark sky photography... This was shot with the K1 and A15/3.5 using the Astrotracer. f4.5, 39 seconds @ ISO 3200 Comments and hints about h

Re: The Milky Way

2023-06-25 Thread Alan C
Not bad at all, Bill! I've tried a few along the same lines (albeit with only my humble K5 & kit lens) & soon realised that there is a considerable learning curve. I found that the biggest hassle was extraneous light but, with the ongoing load shedding in SA, I can easily get around that with a

Re: The Milky Way

2023-06-25 Thread Larry Colen
> On Jun 25, 2023, at 12:27 AM, Bill wrote: > > Continuing with my rather scattershot approach to learning dark sky > photography... > This was shot with the K1 and A15/3.5 using the Astrotracer. > f4.5, 39 seconds @ ISO 3200 > > Comments and hints about how to do this stuff are welcome. How