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slide film. I have only tried this once, and while it appeared to work, it's not clear whether it worked
because "it worked", or because the lab that made the print balanced it out for me.
-- Dan Heller, August 5, 2002
im new to this but for star trails i bought a second hand pentax mg for 50 pounds verry cheap and the
shutter is mechanical on bulb and there is a set 100x shutter speed for moon picturs on 100 asa/iso film
to try youre moony eleven as i call it whith
-- martin wright, September 3, 2002
I have experimented with taking star-trail pictures and have found that my f90's 4-AA batteries just didnt
cut it for multi hour exposures,my solution to this problem was to buy a second battery holder and hard
wire a battery of any size you like (the right voltage of course) to the battery holder.The battery can then
be recharged over and over and it will have plenty of juice.I just bought this stuff for my camera a few
weeks ago.6V battery,a piece of coil wire and a new battery holder,it came out to about 50 bucks.now
long nightime exposures with todays battery dependent cameras are not a problem!
-- Jody Deboer, April 16, 2003
I've been investigating star trails and use the following setup. Minolta SRT101 (fully manual) batteries
removed as you're not going to try and meter on a dark sky :D I use the standard lens that I got with the
camera (bargain on ebay I should add) 50mm f1.7. oh, and a cable release. I've been using kodak 100
and 400 film with very nice results. For nice foreground effects try painting nearer object (trees, bushes
whatever) with a flashlight. A couple of seconds over the entire area brings up the foreground nicely.
Have fun!
-- Ben Johnston, February 17, 2004
With regards to astronomical photography, is not the Olympus OM1 the ideal camera? Fully manual and
no batteries required. Still one of the favourites for telescope astronomy.
-- jay rafiq, June 21, 2005
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