So, in a few days im going to be in the Utah desert, with nothing to do but think. I thought it would be great to use one of my filmstocks. either K40, 200T, or 500T to capture the sunset, then the movment of the stars, (hoping its clear out), and then the sunrise.
Ill be shooting, with either the Nizo 800 or 6080? Im thinking the 800 because of the variable shutter. My plan is to shoot the sunset, shutter closed, 1fps, stars out,open shutter, 1fp20-30sec, drink lots of coffee, sunrise, back to 1fps. close shutter.
Which stock would work best for this forumula? or does anyone have a better suggestion?
thanks,
jordan
How to capture star movement?
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In short your are best of with the S800 using the B (permanent open shutter)and timer. At standard focallength you can expose 30 seconds before the stars become trails. Using full aperture and a higher sensitivity will give more stars. Also you should keep the sky black.
Just some sunset colors could be nice. Not easy to balance you have to keep the sky as exposure guidance otherwise it will bleach out and nothing to see.
There are many parameters and do not expect to get them right all in one time.
Also important to know if telecine can handle these empty negative frames. Many times people think there is nothing on the film and one should be glad to get it back at all from the lab.
In short your are best of with the S800 using the B (permanent open shutter)and timer. At standard focallength you can expose 30 seconds before the stars become trails. Using full aperture and a higher sensitivity will give more stars. Also you should keep the sky black.
Just some sunset colors could be nice. Not easy to balance you have to keep the sky as exposure guidance otherwise it will bleach out and nothing to see.
There are many parameters and do not expect to get them right all in one time.
Also important to know if telecine can handle these empty negative frames. Many times people think there is nothing on the film and one should be glad to get it back at all from the lab.
Kind regards,
André
André
The guys doing the capture recovery are from hollywood, so it would be fitting to catch them on real film.aj wrote:EXTRA UTAH BONUS:
Are you going to watch how this Solar-wind probe with 2mg of matter is coming for re-entry and hopefully be caught in mid-air by helicopters?
Should be 8th sep 2004 14:00
