Well wouldn't you just know it? I lend my rig to Bill for a week and the #$%&ing sky clears ... arrrgh. To be honest it clouded over again fairly quickly, but I took the chance to get some shots of the crescent moon - and have a bit of a play with my camera. Things I learned: ISO is sensitive! A dSLR has many advantages, mainly the bigger CCD that helps with noise, and of course the whole LENS thing *fume*. How did I learn this most obvious factoid? My esteemed flatmate, Jeremy, had his 1000D out with me, and his shots blew mine away :)
Here, let me share one with you:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremy_wanhill/4118846357/
I think he's done awesomely, even though I might grumble about his dSLR. You can follow his Flickr account by taking the number off the end of the link above :) Or clicking on the one over there -->
So I have no rig for a week, I'm off to the Wellytown on Tuesday, and have given Bill the Dob for the week or so that I'm away - by all rights I should change the name of the blog to 15.2mm as that's about all the focal length I got without the scope :)
Anyways .. am off to go learn about RAW, ISO and various other TLAs
2 comments:
Cheers for the rig. It was, of course, cloudy on Monday night so it's intended use at Boy's Brigade was a washout. All good, I had them shooting short films on blue screen instead, so still a geek victory :)
Tonight on the other hand, is looking like a stunner! w00t! Finally.
No worries mate. Happy to lend it. Wellington was nice and clear last night ... got some nice shots of Luna and Jupiter, which I will post very soon :) GL for tonight bro!!
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