Re: [APML] Alternative to Film and CCD

["Michael Barlow" <mikeba@rochester.rr.com>]

    I wasn't sure how best to describe what I'm after however your last
sentence looks like you know what I what I meant.  Cost of switching to
digital isn't really a problem, it can always be worked out somehow.  There
may not be any alternative to CCD, Film or DSLR but it might be worth it to
ask in hopes someone has an idea or had an idea at one time.  My objective
which may be futile(?) is to find something similar to commercial "film"
that can be bought or made long after the last of the commercial films have
stopped being manufactured, even if it means building a custom camera.  Is
it possible to make our own home brewed film or emulsion to spread over
glass plates, or......?  For that matter, where would be a good resource for
doing such?
Michael A. Barlow

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Heggie" <stuart.j.heggie@sympatico.ca>
To: "Michael Barlow" <mikeba@rochester.rr.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] Alternative to Film and CCD


> Michael, I probably took your question the same way that Hap did. Now,
thinking it through, I come
> up empty. If the concern is the cost to jump in and you are not sure what
suits you, why not try
> the remote imaging option at New Mexico Skies? I think Steve Cannistra
posted a shot he took that
> way a few weeks ago - would be on his website (and Jerry Lodriguss has
done this too). The
> experience isn't much like being out under the stars but since I haven't
seen a star in a couple of
> months and when it is clear it is -20C, it is an interesting option.
>
> So, in short, nothing I know of other than: Film, CCD, DSLR.
>
> Stuart
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Barlow" <mikeba@rochester.rr.com>
> To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 1:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [APML] Alternative to Film and CCD
>
>
> >     I think you misunderstood, I probably will eventually go the CCD
rout
> > but If there is an alternative to CCD (and to 35mm type film and to
pencil
> > drawings) I'd rather go that rout.  Is there some other thing I could do
> > that would collect an image much like a film and or computer chip
camera?
> > Michael A. Barlow

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