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Blast from the past
Hi there,
Just thought some of you old enough to remember the 1986 apparition of Halley's Comet might like this cropped repro of an old BW negative I dug out from a box under the house. I took it at about 4.30am on the 20th March 1986 from outer Melbourne. It was taken with Kodak 400iso TriX film and push processed to 3200iso to reduce the exposure time as it was a tripod mounted Pentax Spotmatic f SLR with a 50mm f1.4 lens.
I remember bracketing several exposures in 2 sec increments starting at 10 seconds. I copied 6 of the shortest ones with my Canon DSLR last night, inverted them, then ran them through DSS to stack them. The result is still very grainy but that was the nature of fast films 30 years ago, especially when you push processed them to increase their sensitivity. Hope you enjoy the nostalgia.
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