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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Merz- PAW45 and SAWs
From: ternahan <ternahan@sonic.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 23:07:30 -0800

thanks, Alexy. I don't imagine I'll be climbing any towers, but the Leonids
were fun to see here in California (I didn't have to get up early, just stay
up late) and I enjoyed seeing your photo.t

> From: Alexey Merz <alexey@webcom.com>
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:20:59 -0500
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Merz- PAW45 and SAWs
> 
> 
> 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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