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Comet on Film
Rob, thanks for the link to your site. A great collection on display there.
Here is my best shot on film from Thursday morning. It was taken from our eastern alternative site at Stonehenge Aotearoa, about 10 minutes south of today's terrible balloon tragedy near Carterton.
The colour picture is with my trusty old Nikon F witha 35mm lens @ f/2.8. Exposure was 15 minutes on Fuji Superia X-tra 400 film.
I mentioned in an earlier post that I left the control cord for the digital camera behind, well I also left the 8x lupe that I have to use to get a focussed view through the top down viewer on the Nikon, the original mechanism long since broken. I really wanted to frame the Pointers & Crux in with the comet, but because I was shooting blind so to speak I dare not risk not getting the comet in after travelling so far to do it!
I've added a B&W negative to show the tail to its best. There is significant vignetting at the top of the frame due to the lens being wide open.
Cheers,
Coops.
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