Monday 26 August 2013

AROUND THE STARS AGAIN

Well another quick mess around for about 5 minutes....that is until I felt insects on me and thought I was being bitten alive and probably was?!

Realised that with my tripod I cannot make the camera look directly upwards, annoyingly.

I did, however, manage to figure out how to extend the exposures and was to do with the ISO and above either 8000 or 12500 a quarter second is the longest it would allow. Once you drop to below one of these two it will then allow you to adjust all the way up til a 30 second exposure, oddly. It should not matter much but I found the gap a bit odd, lol.

I have a binocular adapter by Opticron that is meant for my Revelation Astro Binoculars but I think it may help with allowing me to point the camera wherever I want?! Ideally and I o recall now I wanted to get a parallelogram type arm for the tripod which would have allowed this freedom with the binoculars as I had a problem with looking directly overhead with that too!

You would think this kind of problem would have been dealt with by the manufacturers would you not? Lol.

So I messed around with 1.6 seconds up to 8 seconds.


I was just curious as to how it would look, lol...



THE FIRST STARLIGHTS

OK so maybe not THE first stars but still the first stars I have attempted to take a photo of and somewhat later than I had planned, lol.

DO not ask me what they are called as I just walked out very late, tired and in pain and got this new camera and pointed it up at whatever was the brightest points and snapped a few shots.

To force me to make a start and just to see out of interest how they would come out.

Was taken solely hand held and I could not get the exposure up and the photos should now encourage me to drag my First Horizon Tripod down the stairs one night, fingers crossed, lol.

Now I HAD planned at this stage to have a DSLR and a nice reflector for this job by Celestron and a 6 inch or 8 inch GOTO scope. But as I have quite literally been shafted for 6 months by Google, Argos and a few others besides this will have to do ... FOR NOW!!

Still ... on-wards and upwards and I plan on doing a great deal more over the next 12 months and far, FAR more than I have done by a factor of 5 at least but hopefully closer to 10?!

Also the camera has exposure time of up to 30 seconds and manual and semi auto modes but I could only figure out at the time how to get it to 1/4 of a second?! Go figure! After I managed to get these pictures I have become very interested to see what I can do with a shield, tripod and longer exposures?!

Camera is a Sony Cybershot DSC-HX300 with a 50x Magnification so as my Revelation Astros are 15x magnification (70mm Objective) I am really keen to experiment. Roll on the cold crystal clear nights!!! No wait a mnute?! Did I way 'roll on the cold nights'?!

Hehe.

Also I need a shield too it seems and I need to obtain one by the time I have broken my back with that heavy tripod?!?!





Saturday 17 August 2013

THE NIKON CONUNDRUM

Well what MORE can I say?!?!
Do not buy your photographic equipment from Argos!!! LMAO
Hmm or NIKON
FOUR CAMERAS AND ALL FAULTY AND OBVIOUSLY REFURBISHED!!


THE UNBOXING


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THE WITNESSES