[OzEclipse (Joe Cali)]

The lens used is a 10mm f3.5 full frame fisheye designed for an APSc sensor. Used on a full frame camera the lens hood petals cut into the field. After applying lens profile corrections and re-cropping I get a very wide field admittedly with some coma in the corners.

This is a single 4 minute exposure 10mm f3.5 ISO 800. The camera was on a fixed tripod but self-tracking stars by rotating it's sensor using the in-camera image stabiliser actuators.

Taken at Halligan's Bay, western shore of Kati Thanda. The tiny glow of LP on the horizon beneath the SMC is the mine at Olympic Dam.

Someone who was there camping was talking to me while I took the image and when he saw it the next day, he was so taken that he offered me several hundred dollars plus any printing and freight costs to make him an aluminium print. A few hundred dollars pays for one loaf of bread, a jar of vegemite and a box of cereal at one of the local general stores. Fuel is $3/litre.

Joe