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Old August 15th 04, 03:41 PM
Pete Lawrence
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Default Spectacular Perseid image

Unfortunately it's not mine (chance would have been a fine thing!).

I read a number of articles prior to the shower that mentioned that
meteor photography was an area where film still had the edge over
digital. Erm, I don't think so!

This is a composite made by Fred Bruenjes using a Canon 1DS digital
camera. It's without doubt the most spectacular Perseid image I have
ever seen. What a fabulous result - well done Fred!

http://www.moonglow.net/ccd/perseids.jpg

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Old August 15th 04, 04:19 PM
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Couldn't agree more. Meteors cry out for continuous shooting
over time hoping that you get lucky and have a fireball appear
right next to the double cluster or andromeda. The following
sequence of six frames (15 secs each through 50mm f1.8 using a
Canon 300D on continuous mode) shows a Perseid as it first shows
up near andromeda, breaks up on the following frame, and then
finishes with several frames of the debris trail slowly fading
away (http://www.softwaregod.com/perseid.gif). Seems like the
convenience of storing to a 1Gb or larger memory card, and
occasionally deleting a couple hundred empty shots would
naturally give the edge to digital.

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 15:41:26 +0100, Pete Lawrence wrote:

Unfortunately it's not mine (chance would have been a fine thing!).

I read a number of articles prior to the shower that mentioned that
meteor photography was an area where film still had the edge over
digital. Erm, I don't think so!

This is a composite made by Fred Bruenjes using a Canon 1DS digital
camera. It's without doubt the most spectacular Perseid image I have
ever seen. What a fabulous result - well done Fred!

http://www.moonglow.net/ccd/perseids.jpg


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Old August 15th 04, 04:26 PM
Pete Lawrence
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On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 10:19:07 -0500, Doug Haseltine
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Couldn't agree more. Meteors cry out for continuous shooting
over time hoping that you get lucky and have a fireball appear
right next to the double cluster or andromeda. The following
sequence of six frames (15 secs each through 50mm f1.8 using a
Canon 300D on continuous mode) shows a Perseid as it first shows
up near andromeda, breaks up on the following frame, and then
finishes with several frames of the debris trail slowly fading
away (http://www.softwaregod.com/perseid.gif). Seems like the
convenience of storing to a 1Gb or larger memory card, and
occasionally deleting a couple hundred empty shots would
naturally give the edge to digital.


Yes I agree - rather daft comment to make about film IMHO.

That GIF is pretty awsome. Shows the meteor's train beautifully.

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Old August 16th 04, 11:13 AM
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I *like* it!

Kev

"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message
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Unfortunately it's not mine (chance would have been a fine thing!).

I read a number of articles prior to the shower that mentioned that
meteor photography was an area where film still had the edge over
digital. Erm, I don't think so!

This is a composite made by Fred Bruenjes using a Canon 1DS digital
camera. It's without doubt the most spectacular Perseid image I have
ever seen. What a fabulous result - well done Fred!

http://www.moonglow.net/ccd/perseids.jpg

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Pete
Homepage at http://www.pbl33.co.uk
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Old August 18th 04, 12:25 PM
Roy Battell
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In article , Doug
Haseltine writes
Couldn't agree more. Meteors cry out for continuous shooting
over time hoping that you get lucky and have a fireball appear
right next to the double cluster or andromeda. The following
sequence of six frames (15 secs each through 50mm f1.8 using a
Canon 300D on continuous mode) shows a Perseid as it first shows
up near andromeda, breaks up on the following frame, and then
finishes with several frames of the debris trail slowly fading
away (http://www.softwaregod.com/perseid.gif).


Wonderful sequence.

What ISO (effective film speed) did you have your camera set to?

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Old August 19th 04, 03:28 AM
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:25:21 +0100, Roy Battell wrote:

Wonderful sequence.

What ISO (effective film speed) did you have your camera set to?

Roy


ISO 1600, sir.

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Old August 19th 04, 10:51 AM
Pete Lawrence
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 21:28:46 -0500, Doug Haseltine
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:25:21 +0100, Roy Battell wrote:

Wonderful sequence.

What ISO (effective film speed) did you have your camera set to?

Roy


ISO 1600, sir.


The one thing that came out of the Perseids '04 digital imaging
sessions was that it's necessary to put the pedal to the metal and
open your camera to maximum aperture, use as wide an angle lens as you
can and keep the ISO rating as high as you can get away with.

A number of imager took the film advice literally and imaged at
ISO400. This reduced many capture rates to zero. I missed the
maximum due to cloud and had a tortuous post maximum night fighting
high speed cloud disrupting many images.

Out of 160 frames taken, not one meteor. The reason - reduced rates
and too low an ISO setting ISO800. Tricky call though because the
higher ambient temperatures meant that ISO1600 would have been grainy
for me.

Next time I'll be ready though ;-)

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Old August 22nd 04, 09:33 AM
Maurice Gavin
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On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 15:41:26 +0100, Pete Lawrence
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What a fabulous result - well done Fred!


Agreed - Fred should forward image to Neil Bone - Dir BAA Meteor
Section.

 




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