Re: [APML] California Desert Night Sky

[Wei-Hao Wang <whwang@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I believe this is what you guys are talking about:
   http://park10.wakwak.com/~tsumura/photogallary/hist2003/17680pao6s.jpg
Lens is 35/4.5 wide open.  Film is E100S push 2, 80min exposure.
The author is Mitsunori Tsumura, a famous Japanese comet photographer.
His website:
   http://park10.wakwak.com/~tsumura/

Cheers,

Wei-Hao


On Apr 10, 2005 6:49 PM, KGKIRKLEY@aol.com <KGKIRKLEY@aol.com> wrote:
> 
>  In a message dated 4/10/05 9:34:00 PM, twade@bmi.net writes:
>  
>  
>  
> Dean,
>  
>  Now, if one could rig up the Pentax 35 F/4.5 fisheye to use 4x5 and
>  still keep the film flat, it would produce and awesome sight (i.e.
>  3.7" circle).  However, one would have to be stop the lens down to
>  at least F/5.6 or F/8.0 to remove most of the aberrations.  Perhaps,
>  I can get to it after I win the lottery.:-)
>  
>  Wade
>  
>  
>  Wade:
>  It's been done.
>  There is a guy that used to go to the Texas Star Party with Jason Ware
> named Levy who used two modified Graflex 4x5 cameras that had the 35mm
> Pentax Takumer Fish-Eye lenses mounted on them.
>  He had them mounted tandem on a Losmandy GM100 (or G11??) with a pier
> extension to place the cameras "above the crowd and red flashlights". He
> pointed them straight up but slightly east tracking until slightly west. He
> would process and make 20x24 prints in his Airstream trailer and sell them
> in the vendor building. They were very striking images.
>  
>  Kent Kirkley 
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