Shooting with the stars... How? - Page 2

*igowerf* · 05-18-2007, 01:16 PM

Thanks for the info taveren. Now it's time to get a wired shutter release.

*Ash* · 05-18-2007, 04:27 PM

No worries. I'll give it a go. Thanks a lot.

*atnbirdie* · 06-05-2007, 07:25 AM

Would appreciate any info anyone can provide on a locking cable release. I want to do some long exposures and need a wired cable release that I can lock. Does the Pentax "cable switch CS-205" lock?
Thx, Steve

LV Dan · 06-15-2007, 11:20 PM

You can wire up your own locking cable release. I did it really quick with spare parts I had in my shop. There is a great wiring diagram on the following forum:

Cheap Cable Remote for Pentax DSLR

Aneopa · 06-19-2007, 09:43 PM

Originally Posted by taveren

I have taken some star trail shots with my K100D. I used a number of short exposures with no noise reduction and combined them with startrails.exe. This works quite well for producing long exposures, and the process of adding the shots together removes a great deal of noise, including that of high ISO. You can get startrails here

The image below is the result of such a process. I didn't use a dark frame for this one, but it was very cold this night, so heat wasn't a big issue.

This is 92 30s shots. 24mm, f5.6, ISO 800.

Did you shoot this 92 exposures manually or with any kind of intervalometer?

Real nice photo...