RE: [APML] Will a real astrophoto film please stand up.

["John C. Mirtle" <spampit@shaw.ca>]

Ah yes, thanks Bobby! That's the sadly needed good news I was looking for.
Wei-Hao's excellent results at Mauna Kea. Hmmm..... 14,000ft, no oxygen, no
water vapour, no light pollution. You could probably expose raw print paper
with a pinhole camera and get good results! Even so, the response curves for
the film look nice. My first concern was that you needed to increase 1
f-stop at 10 seconds - not a great start!

John Mirtle
Calgary, Ab. Canada
http://members.shaw.ca/jmirtle

-----Original Message-----
From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org [mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org] On
Behalf Of Bobby Middleton
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:01 PM
To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography
Subject: Re: [APML] Will a real astrophoto film please stand up.

Konica Centura Super 800 and 400 have been used by one or two APML
subscribers with what I thought was excellent results. I believe they used
it hypered. The 800 was grainy IIRC.
Here's a link to a gallery with some Konoca shots:
This guy shot frrom on top of Mauna Kea. Heck, any film might do well up
there.
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~wang/gallery/gallery.html
Bobby Middleton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Ware" <jtw@galaxyphoto.com>
To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 8:55 PM
Subject: [APML] Will a real astrophoto film please stand up.


>
> I have lost track of the film choices these days.
> Still have some PPF but I used RG200 last year and
> it blew me away. This was an amazing film but I
> understand it has changed.
>
> I have been using Fuji Superia 100 in the schmidt
> camera but want to hop back into shooting with
> the 16" Lx200.
>
> Is there anything that comes close to RG200?
> Preferably medium format but interested in
> 35mm as well.
>
> NOT interested in E200, star images are the
> size of golf balls.
>
> My kingdom for a MF RG200!!
>
>
> -- 
>  -Jason Ware

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