Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 11/18/02 Nathan Wajsman wrote: >Thirdly, I doubt that one will be able to get any meaningful photographs >of the meteors with a Leica M, although it might be fun to take flash >pictures of the other photographers (be prepared to be yelled at) and >also to smugly look at the people with point-and-shoots using flash to >photograph objects millions of miles away (I saw many people doing that >during the Halley's Comet pass in 1986). Really? Why not? I'd think a wide-angle lens on an M would be pretty spiffy actually. It's not like anyone is going to be peering through the lens of an SLR to capture a speeding flash across the sky. In fact the excellent wide-angle optics of an M should do spiffy keen! One might even make one of the very simple table-top star trackers (see Sky and Telescope) and some vivid images could be obtained. Adam - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html