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Re: [APML] Medium format Beehive and M67
Hi Ray,
Thanks for your comments. You're right about medium format being
affordable. I find that I actually spend a fair bit less on film and
processing with 120 film, largely because I never managed to fill up
a whole roll of 36 exposures before sending it to the lab. Less cost
and less wasted.
If it's not too much trouble, I'd be very interested to see your
photograph of the same region. Just and idea, but perhaps using
relative links in your HTML will enable you to prepare and test your
web pages at home so that all you have to do is bring them to work
and upload?
Best,
Colin
On 9-Sep-05, at 10:57 AM, Ray Butler wrote:
>
> Hi Colin,
>
> Welcome to the medium format fold! It's always been the best format
> for film-based astrophotography, and these days it is as affordable
> as good 35mm gear on the used market, and so are the scanners. So
> if people want to keep shooting the kind of films that are still
> available, it's the way to go.
>
> Your picture came out great. The uniform sharpness is impressive! I
> love the few bright red stars scattered around the Beehive, that
> contrast with the others. I have a Mamiya 645 photo of that field
> taken with a 210mm f4 lens, and since yours was taken with a 150mm
> lens but has been cropped, the two are almost identical. But that's
> a testament to the sharpness of your lens.
>
> (I'll see if I can get around to putting my Beehive+M67 on my
> webpage sometime. It's a clunky process! The images are all scanned
> & processed on my non-networked home PC, but I can only access our
> web server by FTP from my work PC, so I have to bring the images in
> on a USB stick, prepare the webpages locally and then FTP them over
> to the server, and load the page in a browser to test if it looks
> right and the links work; if not re-edit locally and re-FTP and re-
> load...usually several times!)
>
> Ray
>
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Here's my first successful result from the new medium format camera:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/7ajzg
>>
>> Bronica ETR (6 x 4.5cm)
>> 150mm lens wide open at f/4
>> 30 minutes on E200 +1
>> Guided manually
>>
>> I cheated a little with this one and cropped it to about two-
>> thirds of the original frame because I wasn't happy with the
>> composition. Although this was taken back in April 2005, I have
>> just recently-- after much saving--purchased an Epson 4780 and
>> have started scanning my backlog of images. I'm slowly climbing
>> the steep learning curve of astrophotography, so your comments
>> are always very helpful!
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Colin Clark
>> Toronto, Ontario
>>
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