Well, not really, it does suit it's purposes and
I've learned alot with it in the last few months....
...But, I just got my first roll of E200
developed and WOW! what a difference. Hey, you guys didn't tell me I
would start to make out the North America Nebula on a 50mm @f2 exposed for
just 5 minutes! I'm even seeing the Veil at 10 minutes! I've got a
couple of 60 minute manual guided M27's (2000mm @f10) that look
promising as well...nice round and focused
stars.
I think wide field is a real kick...
Problem is I don't have any way to share this
with the list at the moment. Wifey has agreed to let me order a film
scanner as a two month early b-day present (she's a keeper!). I'm
thinking 'bout the Minolta Dimage Dual Scan II. Scans @2820 dpi and
looks like it has a pretty good prescan interface and at around $300 it fits
the budget. Anyone have any problems scanning astophotos with this
one? Doesn't look like I can get this anywhere local so I may have to
mail order. In the meantime I may look at having one of the local labs
scan in some of my shots for me. They're charging $1 per slide...is this
reasonable?
I think $1 a slide is reasonable...
Forgive the newbie excitement, but these shot
have exceeded my expectations. But I guess after working with TMAX for
so long I didn't have very high expectations to begin with. Can't wait
to see what these shot look like after scanning/processing. In general,
do these scanners pick up everything? I would imagine at 2820 dpi you're
scanning grain, but I've never done this first hand.
Carpe Nox, Frank
You Jupiter picture was very good as was the M31
ccd.
Tim