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Originally Posted by Hagar
Hi all, I am wondering what you all think???>??
Has these wonderful awards moved into the realm of the professional/semi professional who can afford to spend a year or more's wages on the set up most of us can only dream of to stand a chance of winning an award.
How many unknown participants do you see each year placing entries? Not too many I guess.
The quality of the images is fantastic to say the least but it is near impossible for the Mr average with Mr Average gear to get a look in to anything other than the true widefield or landscape type sections which places most on somewhat of an even playing field and relies on skills in capture and processing with in most cases standard gear affordable to most of us.
Can you tell I'm bored...
What do you think????
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I think the essence of the David Malin awards is being missunderstood here Doug?
The David Malin Awards and exhibition are about displaying the best and most beautiful astrophotography that Australian astrophotographers are producing, not trying to give everyone a chance at a lucky door prize.
there were 106 entries this year, so with a maximum of 5 entreis per category per entrant, I think there were indeed many "unknown" entrants
There is plenty of scope for basic equipment users, just take a look at the field of winners and honorable mentions this year, plenty of basic DSLR's and camera lenses in there and web cams or similar too. Last years overall winning image and the the overall winner in 2006 were both done with DSLR's with lenses and a small telescope.
It is simply not right to say that the David Malin awards is out of reach for so many, so I am baffled at the complaint..?
Mike