Hi,
I'm catching up with my e-mails after my trip to Japan and I found this
message :
>In anybody's humble opinion, what is the best screen to use for astro-
>photography. I can't see a thing through my 1-4.
In the days I did astrophotography, I did the following. I have to
admit it sounds amateuristic and it will not work if your lens doesn't
stop exactly at infinity. Proceed at your own risk :
Remove your matte screen and use your camera like that. Store the matte
screen safely ! It fits quite nicely into a plastic box of a roll of
film (the most polyvalent piece of packing I've ever seen !). If you
work this way, your camera doubles as a nice small telescope. E.g. with
a 300mm you can fit in the Pleiads and have a *great* view. Do note
that you'll have a round image !
I think for most Zuiko lenses it would work OK if you stop down 2 stops
from the maximum aperture. You would get crisp images this way, even
though you didn't quite focus.
I never really took pictures like this (and the ones I took were ruined
by horrible development & even worse printing in the most terrible dark
room I ever saw : they didn't even have a thermometer !). But it was
great for viewing.
--
Peter Leyssens
Eonic Systems
Personal e-mail : Peter.Leyssens@xxxxxxxxx
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