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Jim, Outstanding image! I get so jealous of you true “southern” guys. Here in South Carolina, at 34N, we get fleeting glimpses, usually through pine tree limbs. The drop down southern wall of our observatory is affectionately known as the “Omega Wall” just for this reason.
On the subject of “the end of film”, I have to disagree. Perhaps things have gotten more difficult for us astroimagers, but film is still alive and well in the daylight world. When all of the magazine, poster and calendar publishers finally sell only “on-line” versions, then I will bow my head and mourn, until then revel in the fact that some of the largest publishers in the world only accept chromes for publication. That’s right, lowly slides, from mere emulsion. J Seems you still can’t get the resolution required for grand enlargements from digital images.
Sure digital has come a long way, but it still cannot compare to the resolution of a Velvia 50 slide via a high res scanner. Look at http://www.arizonahighways.com/page.cfm?name=About_Submissions_Photo and go figure why they would accept a 35mm slide and not a digital image from a medium format camera with a Leaf (can you say second mortgage) digital back.
Keep shooting film so they have a reason to manufacture it, and then keep asking them to manufacture it to our specs. Converting to digital by saying film is dead is a self fulfilling prophecy.
Thom Iwancio Elgin, SC
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