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[MarkW]

Eta Carinae shines in the southern sky, January 1997.

Camera: Lichtenknecker Flat Field 8" f/4.0
Mount: Losmandy G11
Film: Fuji 800 ASA Negative
Exposure Time: 8 minutes
Location: 10 km north of Casino, N.S.W.
Elevation: 200' AMSL

[rogerg]

Excellent stuff! I love film images and this shows really nice colour balance like I'd expect from a Fuji film image. :thumbsup:

[RB]

Very nice Mark.

:thumbsup:

[Ric]

Lovely image mark, lot's of details and great colours.

Cheers

[74tuc]

Nice work Mark.

Do you do your own developing also?

Jerry.:)

[h0ughy]

wow that was on film......

[MarkW]

Jerry,
Thanks for that ! I always did my own black and white negatives and photos and still have all the darkroom gear/enlarger. When I had the use of our family colour photo lab in the 1990's I developed and printed the negatives using Konica 801 based machinery (non-digital). This was great fun and allowed for good experimentation/learning.

[MarkW]

Thanks Ric,
The Flat Field Camera operating at f/4.0 was a unique design from Lichtenknecker for a reflector and made this sort of field capture a lot easier.
At times focus shift was reported in some reviews of the camera by other reviewers/users, however, I always liked the images that I got.