more than one? person has asked to see a film image of p1, I assume they mean from a dark sky site on top of that?
seeing our usual development lab with the half million dollar u beaut kodak express machine is in transition, i did the rather crazy thing of taking it somewhere else equally reputable!, but unknown quality, with the same machine - i
knew from long bitter experience that is a very stupid and dumb thing to do, as you have to take time to train them and break them in so to speak in the art of astro pic development
you know .. yes its supposed to be dark it's.. like..
nightime and, no thats not dust, its stars your trying to wipe off .. ect.
anyway the very nice lady did their best and went over backwards to do it right, said the machine/computer was having a fit tryin to decide what should be done *sigh* oh well my mistake, will be patient and get them done correctly - later on - no hurry, and it was late in the day had to go
but as way of an example of comparison to the old time shots of the great comets, heres one off the 300dpi neg scan disc that they provide, its woeful, but you get the idea, taken monday night 22nd, it was 35mm fuji H 400 iso/speed film 15-20 sec exp? on a tripod - 50mm f1.7 lens/ @ f2 - pentax mv body - both from the 1980's and the whole unit cos $200, tripod was more expensive
unprocessed - ah well throw good money after bad
nothing wrong with negs, they look totally normal, thank goodness, they cant stuff up negs, except scratch them - i was shocked they werent using cotton gloves to handle the negs - i felt a little ill when i saw that scene
should blow up real nice being 400 tho
and i have many others from that night, just wish my other film pentax with the 28mm mm and fuji provia in it hadnt locked up and ruined the roll - such is astrophotography, as ned kelly famously said
