Re: VESO 2010 - lunar eclipse - GDG
Thanks. I missed to as well. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi ramar...@mac.com wrote: Here's a little video composite showing the last 15-20 minutes or so of the eclipse from my patio: http://gallery.me.com/godders#100204 (In testing with different browsers, FireFox played it immediately. Safari had to have its caches cleared, quit and restart, then it played it properly.) The photographs were made with the Olympus E-5 fitted with EC14 1.4x teleconverter and adapted Pentax SMC Takumar 135mm f/3.5 lens (a net 190mm f/4.9 telephoto). The only processing done to the individual images was to crop them to a small square and roughly center the moon, then they were input into iMovie and output as an MPEG file with about a 30 second duration. During the course of taking the photos, I manipulated ISO setting, EV compensation and focus as the clouds above swirled in and out, trying to keep a viable image capture going. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: VESO 2010 - lunar eclipse - GDG
Make that missed it as well. Truly, my typing is a diminishing resource. On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. I missed to as well. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi ramar...@mac.com wrote: Here's a little video composite showing the last 15-20 minutes or so of the eclipse from my patio: http://gallery.me.com/godders#100204 (In testing with different browsers, FireFox played it immediately. Safari had to have its caches cleared, quit and restart, then it played it properly.) The photographs were made with the Olympus E-5 fitted with EC14 1.4x teleconverter and adapted Pentax SMC Takumar 135mm f/3.5 lens (a net 190mm f/4.9 telephoto). The only processing done to the individual images was to crop them to a small square and roughly center the moon, then they were input into iMovie and output as an MPEG file with about a 30 second duration. During the course of taking the photos, I manipulated ISO setting, EV compensation and focus as the clouds above swirled in and out, trying to keep a viable image capture going. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: VESO 2010 - lunar eclipse - GDG
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Here's a little video composite showing the last 15-20 minutes or so of the eclipse from my patio: http://gallery.me.com/godders#100204 (In testing with different browsers, FireFox played it immediately. Safari had to have its caches cleared, quit and restart, then it played it properly.) The photographs were made with the Olympus E-5 fitted with EC14 1.4x teleconverter and adapted Pentax SMC Takumar 135mm f/3.5 lens (a net 190mm f/4.9 telephoto). The only processing done to the individual images was to crop them to a small square and roughly center the moon, then they were input into iMovie and output as an MPEG file with about a 30 second duration. During the course of taking the photos, I manipulated ISO setting, EV compensation and focus as the clouds above swirled in and out, trying to keep a viable image capture going. Godfrey I don't have quick time so couldn't watch - I do have the latest version of Firefox. sigh ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: VESO 2010 - lunar eclipse - GDG
Ann Sanfedele wrote on Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:11:38 -0800 I don't have quick time so couldn't watch - I do have the latest version of Firefox. sigh Ann, there is a version of FireFox for Windows. It's a free download at the Apple.com site: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ Regards, Jim Jim King jamesk8...@mac.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: VESO 2010 - lunar eclipse - GDG
Very nice, Godfrey. Thanks for posting. Much appreciated since I wasn't able to catch any of the eclipse. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Godfrey DiGiorgi ramar...@mac.com To: DUG digitalusersgr...@yahoogroups.com; PAW Picture-A-Week project p...@micapeak.com; SeePhoto Talk seeph...@micapeak.com; BAPhotoShooters baphotoshoot...@yahoogroups.com; PDML List PDML@pdml.net Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 5:14 PM Subject: VESO 2010 - lunar eclipse - GDG Here's a little video composite showing the last 15-20 minutes or so of the eclipse from my patio: http://gallery.me.com/godders#100204 (In testing with different browsers, FireFox played it immediately. Safari had to have its caches cleared, quit and restart, then it played it properly.) The photographs were made with the Olympus E-5 fitted with EC14 1.4x teleconverter and adapted Pentax SMC Takumar 135mm f/3.5 lens (a net 190mm f/4.9 telephoto). The only processing done to the individual images was to crop them to a small square and roughly center the moon, then they were input into iMovie and output as an MPEG file with about a 30 second duration. During the course of taking the photos, I manipulated ISO setting, EV compensation and focus as the clouds above swirled in and out, trying to keep a viable image capture going. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
