[APML] Again: Meteor Photography

["Philipp Salzgeber" <philipp@salzgeber.at>]

With the upcoming perseid shower, I am thinking about the best way photographing it...

with the help of Ulrich Beinertīs "Meteor Capture Calculator" (based on a BASIC program written by
Roger W. Sinnott) I looked at the efficiency of some of my lenses:

format    f.l.          f/stop   efficiency
35mm    50mm    1,8       60,5
35mm    35          2         66,1
35mm    20          2,8      48,6
6x7        55         3,5       54,2
6x7        105       2,4       124,8

it seems that I should use the Pentax 6x7 with the 105mm and the Nikons with the 50mm and the 35mm lenses.

Now for the films. I am looking for readily available high-sensitive, low grain color films with bad reciprocity-failure
characteristics.
In the 35mm a simple consumer ASA 800 film should do, but what about medium format?

with best regards


Philipp Salzgeber



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