Peter Leyssens wrote:
>Charles,
>
>
>
>>>Over 10 years ago, our observatory had TMAX3200 as fairly standard film,
>>>except for some nutty experiments with Technical Pan.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>3200. wow, everthing I've read so far calls for slow film. How is the
>>grain on that stuff?
>>
>>
>
>The grain was big :) But then we were shooting straight through a 25cm
>Kutter scope (5000mm/f20 for us photographers) with no guiding scope,
>and the motor wasn't too accurate. Technical Pan, later on, was used
>with a 300mm or larger mounted on that scope, using the scope itself to
>track.
>
>In any case, I don't really consider those days to be a reference in
>astrophotography. In the beginning, we didn't even use a thermometer in
>the dark room, so most stuff came out pretty gray. But after a couple
>of years, after I had already quit, a few people did manage to get
>really impressive shots of some simpler things (moon, Pleiads, ...) and
>okay shots of nebulae etc. No Sky&Telescope stuff, but quite decent.
>
>Try shooting in colour too, it's interesting.
>
>
>
>
Thanks Peter, I do intend to use some color, but always like to have a
little control over the printing of non-typical photos...so will be
doing primarily black & white.
Charles
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