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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
02-19-2010, 01:32 PM
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Sure,
I have an 8 inch reflecting telescope - a meade LX55 to be precise. I have it on a mount which counters the rotation of the earth, so the telescope stays pointed at the object you are interested in.
I have a gadget that attaches to the front of my camera instead of a lens, and this allows the camera to go where the eyepiece would normally sit. This turns the telescope into a long, fast telephoto lens - about 850mm f8.
Those two pictures were taken with exposures of about 1 minute each at ISO 800.
I'm really just starting out trying this type of photography - I need to improve the tracking of the telescope, so I can do deeper exposures.
Fun (if very cold).
Nick
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
02-19-2010, 10:11 AM
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Here are a few from this week.
A couple with the K7 at prime focus of an 8 inch f8 telescope - andromeda galaxy and orion nebula.
And three birds from the back garden, a goldfinch, long tailed tit, and a thrush.
Nick
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
02-03-2010, 01:04 PM
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A few pics taken with my new 35mm macro limited lens.
My amaryllis, just opened
Sunset over the isle of portland
Couple of shots of man o war bay (near lulworth cove)
A spent 50cal round found on the lulworth ranges.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-25-2010, 11:55 AM
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I was under the impression that DSLRs have an IR blocking filter in front of the sensor so you can't do IR photography with one. People who want to use DSLRs for astrophotography sometimes remove the filter to allow IR to be imaged. Am I wrong?
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-24-2010, 09:43 AM
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Thanks for the comments - I've straightened it up, cropped it and you are all right - looks much better. Was trying to 'lead the eye' but the cropped image is definately better!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-23-2010, 05:01 PM
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The Dorset steam fair is a quite amazing thing. Basically held in a big field in dorset (middle of the south coast of england, only county in england without a motorway) it attracted 250 000 people last year. Nearly twice as many people that went to the glastonbury music festival. And basically it is all about steam power - traction engines, tractor pulls, ploughing competitions, and a *lot* of very strong cider.
Thanks for the comments!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-23-2010, 01:35 AM
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Not a lump of coal - an unfortunate slip in gimp whilst resizing the picture!
D'oh!
Thanks for the comments!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-22-2010, 04:01 PM
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A couple of photos taken at the Dorset steam fair.
Hand held long exposures so at least one obrders on the abstract.....
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
01-22-2010, 12:15 PM
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Got the chance to get out with my new K7, in a brief bit of good weather this week.
Taken with my favourite lens - 50mm f1.4 - although it may be eclipsed by my new 35mm macro limited.....
I'm sure I could improve these with better light, or photoshopping, but I quite like the general ideas in each of them
Nick
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-19-2010, 03:13 PM
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A lot of the time, I try to just capture colour or texture. Here are a couple for you to 'enjoy'. Any comments gratefully read - are these interesting enough to warrant posting?
(plus I'm a newbie so I'm practicing uploading snaps)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-19-2010, 07:36 AM
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Great pictures.
Love the intensity in number 1
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-19-2010, 07:13 AM
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Durrrrr,
first time - now I've read the sticky on how to post images...
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-19-2010, 07:00 AM
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]Picture of my basement kitty - absorbing all the light.
What do you think? Cropped enough? Any post processing hints?
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Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories
01-19-2010, 03:51 AM
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I've just bought a K7 to replace my ISTDS.
Does the same cable release work with both - the one I have that works with the ISTDS terminates with a micro headphone style socket
It seems to start to go into the K7- but I'm somewhat cautious to push it home without being sure.
On the pentax website, it says that basically the whole range uses the same cable release, but it doesn't mention the K7 in the list....
Thanks for any help!
Nick
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