Re: [APML] Results vs. expense (was New Pix by Robert Gendler)

["Andy Wallace" <andywallace@home.com>]

Makes sense to me. BTW, someone with a  name similar to yours recently
shared a clever microphone-soundcard idea with the ham radio community  :-).

Andy  K5VM


> Let me interject something here...
>
> I have never had any interest in doing astrophotography competitively.  I
> feared that it would quickly turn into a money-spending contest, and I
can't
> play that game.  (Although it *need* not -- the beauty of a picture is not
> proportional to the difficulty of taking it *nor* the cost of the
> equipment!)
>
> For me, astrophotography is two things.  It's a hobby, something I do to
get
> away from my daily routine.  It's also an art and craft, an area of
> scientific and technological development.  That's why I'm always doing
> experiments to find out what will happen with some new technique.
>
> (My real hobby is not producing *photographs* but producing new
> *information* about how to take photographs!)
>
> If my goal were simply to get the prettiest pictures, I'd sell my house
and
> buy a smaller one, take the children out of private schools, sell a car,
and
> buy about $30,000 worth of equipment plus a lot of plane tickets to
Arizona.
> Then, using completely established, un-original techniques, I'd take
exactly
> the pictures the equipment was designed for.  But I'd be miserable and
> bored, as well as inflicting misery on others!
>
>
> Clear skies,
>
> Michael A. Covington  /  AI Center  /  The University of Georgia
> Author, ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE AMATEUR
> http://www.CovingtonInnovations.com/astro  <><
>
>
>
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