Re: [APML] Another processing challenge

["Monte Wilson" <montezinho@bigpond.com>]

Hi Phillip,
             Your version is a vast improvement on my attempt. Thanks for
the effort.

Yes the 200 is an f/4. I found it in a trader magazine here in Australia. It
was in another city and the low price ($490 Australian or about $220US) made
me a bit suspicious so I quizzed them about it and decided to take a chance
on the assurance the glass was OK.

When I got it, I could see why they were selling it at a low price. It's had
more hits than Elvis but true to their word the glass was perfect, not a
blemish!

I took that shot at f/5.6 and I am quite happy with it's sharpness. I am
having a problem with my mount and STV so I had to hand guide it although I
did use the STV to give me a visual indication of the drift in each axis and
it's tremendous accuracy allowed me to get a good result. Nitrogen was used
to keep the film dry.

You can see the mount in the following picture :
http://www.tradepart.com/techinfo/DSCN0342.jpg

I don't know what the scanner is. I had it scanned in a lab.

Regards

Monte




----- Original Message -----
From: Philipp Salzgeber <philipp@salzgeber.at>
To: apml <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: [APML] Another processing challenge


here´s my attempt:

http://www.salzgeber.at/images/origmilkyway_ps.jpg

BTW: I think the image is very well executed. After seen the original scan
up close, some questions came to my mind: Is the 200mm a f/4 lens? What
mount did you use? What autoguider - if any? What scanner?

with best regards

Philipp Salzgeber


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: "Monte Wilson" <montezinho@bigpond.com>
An: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. Mai 2002 23:37
Betreff: Re: [APML] Another processing challenge


Hi Dave,
           Thank you for your input. I quite like your version. Its shows
the nebulosity very well. What did you do to get the result? I tried to get
that result but the contrast went too high and looked ugly.

Monte


  ----- Original Message -----
  From: DPMESSIER@aol.com
  To: astro-photo@seds.org
  Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 3:41 AM
  Subject: Re: [APML] Another processing challenge


  Monte,

  I'm not really very good at this, but I thought I'd give it a shot.  Only
had time to spend a few minutes on the processing and I used the JPG
version. (Bandwidth challenged)  Here is the result.

                   http://www.dpmessier.com/milky_way.htm

  Dave Messier

  In a message dated 5/21/02 9:33:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
montezinho@bigpond.com writes:



    Hi Guys,
               Following on from Matt's LMC. I thought I would throw this
one in for anyone who is interested.

    It is a shot of the Scorpius Milky way taken with a 6x7 Pentax on E200,
200mm lens @f5.6 60 mins - push 1/2 stop.

    The scan is a monster file so I am posting a small JPG version of it. A
pro lab did the scan so I don't know the type of scanner used but I guess it
is reasonably good one.

    The detail is good but the colours are a bit dull and when I try to
bring them up with PS 5 the shot becomes a bit to contrasty and loses it's
detail.

    The file is 587kb and is about 2000x1600 in size.

    Go to http://www.tradepart.com/techinfo/origmilkyway.jpg

    I only have PS but if someone has some real whizbang software that does
the trick, I would love to see the result and know what was done.

    Many thanks

    Monte




  David P. Messier

  Web site:  http://www.dpmessier.com
  E-mail:  dpmessier@aol.com




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