Question - to avoid the possibility of banding with the Panny 20, I thought I'd
try either the OM 28 or the 50. I've looked up some hyperfocal calculators -
do I figure at actual FL or at the MFT equivalent FL?
As an alternative, since it's on a tripod at f16 anyway, I could use the 12-50.
Paul Braun
Certified Music Junkie
"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.". -- Harlan Howard
On Apr 13, 2013, at 19:04, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks. Your biggest problem might be trying to figure out how to focus
> if the scene is extremely dark. I was fortunate in having remembered
> that my last shot the day before was at about 30-40 feet at 150mm. I
> figured 14mm would be good to go for a near hyperfocal effect if focused
> at 30 feet and it was. If you're going to do the night sky and have no
> bright objects at suitable distances to focus on you might want to
> preset the camera for hyperfocal use. Pre-focusing at about 20 feet
> should take care of you from 12 to 25mm with near focus ranging from
> about 4 feet at the short end and 10 feet at 25mm and both, of course,
> covering infinity. That's assuming a resolution of 50 lines/mm or good
> enough for a largish print. If doing web images only it will be much
> less stringent.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 4/13/2013 2:20 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
>> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=4354>
>>>
>>> This is the backyard at my daughter's house in High Point, North
>>> Carolina the morning after I shot the soccer game. It wasn't in my plan
>>> to submit this as the "night shot" but when I stumbled down the stairs
>>> in the early morning for some coffee I could see this scene depicted
>>> from the many windows along the back side of the house.
>> Gorgeous. Well worth the effort, sir. I'm going to try some night-sky
>> photography a little in the coming weeks - there are places I can go south
>> of town that are away from the light pollution of Gary, the steel mills,
>> and Chicago, and also away from the air pollution of the mills.
>>
>> Very nice entry.
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