Re: [APML] Auriga Wide Field

[Matt BenDaniel <matt@starmatt.com>]

Volker,

I like the Scorpius image in particular. I think that represents what Mellinger used for Milky Way.

Your 28mm lens has the same coverage as a 55mm MF lens. I wonder if the image scale of medium format reveals more details in any flaws or artifacts.

Matt

At 01:35 PM 11/3/2001 +0100, Volker Wendel wrote:
>...I know how hard it is, to remove gradients
>of wideangle lenses. It is, as you pointed out much harder than telescope
>vignetting because of the gradients from the skies from uneven lightcones
>and different distances of your frame to the horizon.
>
>Here are two results made years ago with my Sigma 28mm 1,8 at 2,8:
>
>http://www.spiegelteam.de/Galaktische%20Nebel/Wintermilchstr28.jpg  I made
>this shot in 10500 ft Altitude in the Alps in Switzerland. There was a hard
>gradient to the south because of the light of the Milan which is 150km south
>of my side and because this frame nearly touched the peaks near the horizon.
>And there was a gradient due to the vignetting of that lens at f/2,8 as you
>can imaging <g>. The film I used was PPF 400 and itīs single exposure.
>
>http://www.spiegelteam.de/Galaktische%20Nebel/Skorpion28mm.jpg This shot was
>made under the extremly dark skies of Namibia with the Center of the Milky
>Way overhead. Itīs also a single shot but made with Royal Gold 400
>unhypered. It was made in 1998.

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Matt BenDaniel
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