[Leica] IMG: Testing SL For Milky Way Imaging

[Bob Adler]

Thanks everyone. I did take some at 1600 ISO and shorter exposure (15 sec rather than 20).  I'll see if that makes a difference.  It was an amazing show; the center of the MW is finally visible at a somewhat reasonable hour (12:30-3am). In February in Death Valley the MW did not "rise" until 3am... fahgetabout that! This was spectacular. 

There are star trails from the longer exposure, but only visible if you put your nose on the screen. The shorter exposure may help with that. I also probably over cooked the image in post. I've only had 2hrs sleep in the last 48hrs so I'm more than a bit woozy. Also the jpegs are very different than the tiff files especially as regards noise.

If any of you are wanting to try this, the next 5 days should be amazing. Wish I had the energy to go back! As an aside, it's been 110deg F here: 85 at 8,000'. But I got stuck in snow, had to be pulled out, and went a different way. Nuts eh?

Thanks again all.

Bob Adler
www.robertadlerphotography.com

> On Jun 21, 2017, at 5:40 PM, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote:
> 
> beautiful
> 
> ric
> 
> 
>> On Jun 21, 2017, at 5:28 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Last night I went up to Silver Lake in the Sierras. It's at about 7,800'
>> elevation. I went to see how the SL with the SL24-90mm would work with
>> Milky Way photography. The two images were taken at 12,500 ISO @ 24mm,
>> f/2.8 with a 20second exposure. I shot from 10:30pm until 3:00am...
>> 
>> Though there is a lot of noise, I don't find it distracting. The drama of
>> the center of our galaxy seems to outweigh any noise issues. Please click
>> on the image to make it larger to fit your screen:
>> 
>> http://www.robertadlerphotography.com/p133735760/h8e052599#h8e052599
>> 
>> I would appreciate others' opinions as to whether or not they find the
>> noise distasteful or does it look more like film grain. The images were
>> post processed in Capture 1.
>> 
>> Thanks for any opinions in advance,
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
>> Bob Adler
>> www.robertadlerphotography.com
>> *"Capturing Light One Frame At A Time"*
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