Filmwasters
Which Board? => Photo Essays => Topic started by: astrobeck on June 23, 2017, 09:38:50 PM
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I have wanted to emulate the old centerfolds in Sky & Telescope magazine and gave it another try last night.
My previous attempts have been foiled by airplanes, battery death, clouds, faulty cable releases, bumping the mount and just being a
klutz in the dark.
Even now, the shot from the Zenit suffered a scratch on the negative that I cloned out, so don't mind the extra or missing stars, argh!
I used an old Konica Auto S2 rangefinder with a 45mm Hexanon 1.8 lens
for the first photo and my pet Zenit E with a 50mm Zeiss 1.8 Pancolar lens for the second photo.
Both were made using expired Ilford Delta 400 film and then souped in the caffenol delta recipe for 8 minutes.
Each photo was made using a ten minute exposure. I made others using different times, but ten minutes was the best of the lot.
Tracking provided courtesy of a Losmandy G8
These are from last night.
enjoy!
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Those are great Becky, they do look like something from an old magazine. How would they have tracked stars back then? I'm sure they didn't have a device like your Losmsndy G8, it seems like it would have been difficult to do it by following a target but I suppose it could be done.
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back in the heyday of the centerfolds of Sky & Telescope magazine, ( 1960 and 70's) they had tracking devices.
Plus, there is a simple device known as a "barn door tracker" that uses a 1/4-20 althread and not that works well for about 15 minutes of watching and turning it...
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Lovely shots, Beckster!
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Very cool shots Becky, made even cooler by the commie surplus camera! :p
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loving these, becky :)
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Wow, that´s really infinite focusing :)
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Beautiful!