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Re: [APML] The End of Tech Pan???
> Note: For wide field imaging, film still has the advantage over CCD.
> I'm talking about FOVs over 5 or 10 degrees. In a few years that'll
> change, too.
>
> Matt
Oh my Gosh! I go to work and suddenly there are over 50 messages in this
thread! I guess this hit a hot button with this one <g>.
If my kid was out of college and I had a couple of grand burning a hole in
my pocket, I would LOVE to start putting together a setup to do driveway
astrophotography like Mr. Gendler does. His results are breathtaking. But
until that happy day, I will have to stick to the stone age technology
(Nikons and a Schmidt camera) that I already have and press on with
wide-field work on film. After all... I wrote the book on it <G>. I
continue to do this type of astrophotography because I love the wide vistas
you can get on one piece of film. For the (very near) future, film is still
the only way to do this. I was shooting 90 degree fields at the Okie-Tex.
This can't be done yet with CCDs. I pray film will still be around as long
as I can use it. Heck, they don't have to keep manufacturing that much
longer before I am too old and decrepid to go out into the cold like I did
last Saturday. But I still truly believe that film will be around for quite
a while yet. It has not started its terminal dive into oblivion yet. There
is still too much of a capability gap between mainstream digital imaging and
film imaging to do a cutoff of film technology. It will be with us at least
as long as I am physically able to use it. Now my kid... thats another
story. I envy the astrophoto results he will be able to digitally achieve
when he is my curent age. But then again, that will be the year 2040!
Now to plow through the rest of the 50 messages in this thread. This should
be intresting!
Robert Reeves reeves10@swbell.net
520 Rittiman Rd. www.robertreeves.com
San Antonio, Texas 78209 210-828-9036
USA 29.484 98.440 200 meters
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