Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Merz- PAW45 and SAWs
From: Alexey Merz <alexey@webcom.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:20:59 -0500

On Thursday, November 22, 2001, at 12:08 PM, Leica Users digest wrote:

> From: ternahan <ternahan@sonic.net>
>
> Tell us how you did it!

The Leonids shot:
http://www.webcom.com/alexey/paw/week200145.html
...or the street photos? ;-). For the Leonids shot, M6HM, 35 1.4 
ASPH wide open (an IDEAL setup for meteorite pix), Fuji Superia 
400. Exposures were made for 15 s to more than 5 minutes, the frame 
shown was in the 30s -1' range. I mounted the M6 on the guard rail 
of a fire lookout tower; this was done with Vise grip pliers and a 
homemade L-bracket with a (Leitz) ballhead attached to it.

Actually, by far the most difficult part was getting up early 
enough to be at the top of Gile Mt. before 0500! Also, with 
cold-numb fingers, I almost dropped the bottom plate off the tower 
during a film change. I'm going to have to put a leash on the 
bottom plate when I take the M6 to high, exposed locations.

I did not track the earth's rotation, so you can see motion blur in 
the background star field. There is a sweet home-made setup for 
tracking described here:
http://home.hiwaay.net/~warrenca/Astronomy/Projects/Barndoor/Door.htm

...of course, if I had tracked, the skyline at the bottom of the 
frame would have been blurred.

> I like weeks 47 and 42 the best!

Thanks!

Alexey Merz
Department of Biochemistry
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover NH 03755-3844
alexey@webcom.com | alexey@dartmouth.edu
603-650-1702 | http://www.webcom.com/alexey/

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