Noiseland

[multiweb (Marc)]

Cleaning my HD tonight I came across some very old shots. The very first pics I took with my Nikon Coolpix on Monte's finder scope and a couple on my newt with a Pentax. Trip down memory lane ... and noise and artefacts...all that sort of stuff.

*disclaimer: these might scar your retina.

[h0ughy (David)]

ah yes i have quite a few of those as well. pentax ist and 300D shots and the odd pentax k10d

[Tom Davis (Tom)]

Hey Marc, some of those are prettyy good! My first images are unrecognizable!!

Tom

[JD2439975 (Justin)]

Always good to see where you've come from, gives a clue as to where your going.

Definitely in the right direction Marc.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

ah yes i have quite a few of those as well. pentax ist and 300D shots and the odd pentax k10d

Pentax *istD? Before I used the Nikon Coolpix 995 with an eyepiece projection and first shot I thought wow...that's odd! That's when I learnt my first astro word: coma.

Originally Posted by Tom Davis

Hey Marc, some of those are prettyy good! My first images are unrecognizable!!Tom

My first ever pic was a couple of lines. The bright one was sirius if I recall

Originally Posted by JD2439975

Always good to see where you've come from, gives a clue as to where your going. Definitely in the right direction Marc.

I thought the important thing is to remember where you come from. Just wanna give hope to all the noobs so they know 'this is normal'. Gotta start somewhere. ... mind you by the calibre of the photos I see in the beginners forums these days they're all semi-pro already.

[Barrykgerdes]

Gee Marc

I have a coolpix 5000 and a special adaptor I made for eyepiece projection in 2002. I tried it on a couple of shots of Jupiter and they had as much detail as Venus. I got the special RS232 cable and a program to take subs up to 5 mins. The clouds were around every night from then on and I lost interest. You think your old shots are primative. Take a look at this!

I was going to try it on the LX200 up at Wiruna a few months ago but could not find my cables. I think with modern control programs it may be workable again for an experiment. Must try it sometime.

[TrevorW]

They are really Cool pix Marc

[David Fitz-Henr]

Hey, a few of those aren't too bad at all - I like the globulars and Eta Carina!!

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Yes, I like reminiscing too - looking back gives context to where you are and where you're going!

Cheers, Marcus

[Hagar (Doug)]

We all have some of these Marc but yours are a lot better than most of my first digital images and we won't go back to film.