Events from a few weeks back when the big Moo eclipse was.
I was with the scouts and we were just to go and do some stuff, when a guy sat
up a tripod on the baseball field and propped a black AE-1 with a 200mm third
party lens on it. I talked to him and he offered to take some pix for me while
the activities were going (wife had not arrived yet and his was there, so he
had the time) I sat up my OM1, showed him how to lift up the mirror and he
already knew how to use the cord..:)
I have never done astrophotography and had instructions, he had nopin' just the
'program mode".
When I got the negatives back, they were perfectly exposed ( please, I know
what a perfectly exposed negative looks like...) How could that be? The
camera is more than twenty years old. Wife's Minolta S414 have spot metering
and the spot is as big as the Moon at about 100mm and never gets it right. I
know my OM1 would not do it (although it excels in everythihg I ask it to do)
and the PC stands for piece of crap when it comes to low light.
The other mystery was the way he took the pix. I had the moon split between
two frames, how did he do that?
Can the OM4T(I)do that?
Boris
This hath not offended the king.
Sir Thomas More (at his execution)
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