[nikonf4] Re: Meteors / Aurora

  • From: Koichi Mac <nikonf3tmd4@xxxxxxx>
  • To: nikonf4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:57:20 -0800

        30" at ISO 64 and f/1.4 sounds just about right.  I was using @ISO 50 
and f/11.  I know there is no chance in hell that film can compete with current 
dSLRs.  


Koichi Yasutani - a.k.a. Steve + MP
Lakewood, WA U.S.A.
2010 / 12 / 10          04:57 PST

On Dec 9, 2010, at 0623 , Eric Welch wrote:

> The difference is film has no chance competing with a D700 at high ISO. I 
> believe that would be 13 seconds. I remember shooting Northern Lights in 
> Canada back in the early 80s on Kodachrome 64 and a Pentax LX and 50mm 1.4. I 
> think the exposure - picked by the camera reading off the film (the LX was 
> one of the first to read ambient exposures reflected off film) - was about 30 
> seconds.
> 
> On Dec 8, 2010, at 11:50 PM, Koichi Mac wrote:
> 
>>      Um…that's for Windows, isn't it?  Let me see if I can check the 
>> metadata.  Got it, here is PNG.  So that's 13 seconds? or 1/13 second? - 
>> much shorter than I anticipated anyway.  I have a shot of northern lights / 
>> aurora, spent about 8 minutes with film and wouldn't show up spectacularly 
>> like that, suffering a massive reciprocity failure.
>> 
>> <Screen shot 2010-12-08 at 11.46.01 .png>
>> 
>> On Nov 30, 2010, at 2016 , John Osthus wrote:
>> 
>>> I believe I did not strip it out of the EXIF.
>>> 
>>> Do you have Opanda?
>>> 
>>> http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/
>>> 
>>> Nice to have.  A right click leads you to all of the data.
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Koichi Mac [mailto:nikonf3tmd4@xxxxxxx] 
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 9:56 PM
>>> To: John Osthus
>>> Cc: Nikon F4
>>> Subject: Re: Meteors
>>> 
>>>     Thanks for the forward.  Shows really nice.  Mind to share data?
>>> 
>>> On Nov 30, 2010, at 1945 , John Osthus wrote:
>>> 
>>>> From: John Osthus [mailto:josthus@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 8:53 PM
>>>> To: 'Eric Welch'
>>>> Subject: FW: Meteors
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Eric
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks again for the Audio help.
>>>> 
>>>> If you look at this at 100 percent you can see 4 meteors, faintly.  All
>>> near the center  of the screen sort of.
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> 
>>>> JO
>>>> 
>>>> From: John Osthus [mailto:josthus@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 8:46 PM
>>>> To: 'jaypax@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
>>>> Subject: Meteors
>>>> 
>>>> Jay,
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for your interest.
>>>> 
>>>> This is a low-rez version of a NEF I shot with the D700.
>>>> 
>>>> There are a couple of faint trails near the milky way near the center of
>>> the image, and a couple of smaller traces on the left center.  You have to
>>> enlarge to 100 percent to see them well.
>>>> 
>>>> Not show stoppers when it comes to meteors - these were accidents while I
>>> was shooting the milky way hoping for a meteor.  I didn't see any of these
>>> the camera caught.
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> 
>>>> John
>>>> <_DEF0746.jpg>

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