Let's Photograph Comet 46P Wirtanen

On Mon, 24 Dec 2018 22:54:55 -0600, hleopold
wrote:
On Dec 24, 2018, Paul Schlyter wrote
(in et):
On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 18:30:49 -0600,
wrote:
Way back in the late 70s early 80s I did, for a while, try
photography with
my scopes, but otherwise I have been strictly a visual
observer. I cant
believe the great stuff that we have these days. I am not
really a fan of
digital photography in many ways, I loved shooting film, and
that was how I
did astro photos back then.




You can still shoot film if that's what you enjoy to do.




The camera stores near me hardly carry any film anymore, except for
4x5 or
8x10. And I have gotten out of the habits I used to have. I love my
smart
phone for its ability to grab shots that pop up unexpectedly.

The camera in your smart phone is a digital camera so that makes you
a fan of digital photography.

The digital cameras are more than just DSLR cameras where a digital
sensor has replaced the film. Almost all digital cameras now also has
video capability. There are really small "adventure cameras" you can
bring along in conditions where you wouldn't bring your regular
camera. There are surround cameras which photograph in every possible
direction all over the 55000 square degrees over the entire sphere
around the camera. Some sky watchers set upp all-sky cameras (which
photograph only half the sphere) and run them all night long every
night and examine the time-lapse movies afterwards. A lot of this
would hardly have been possible with older film cameras.