Milky Way Arch

[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 tat 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

[leon]

Very impressive Joe, there is quite a lot of stars in that image, well done.

Leon

[Leo.G (Leo)]

That's lovely Joe!
The only fisheye I've played with is an accessory lens that screwed on the front of the camera lens (possibly on my ...crap, I forget), ah, Lumix FZ50, lovely camera (luckily it's on a shelf right beside me with 10-15 other old cameras and heaven knows how many lenses).
I still got some nice results Not as good as yours because the extension fisheye was a German thing I got with the camera from a French tourist (original owner with paperwork I met at a Epping railway station to pick the camera up during his work lunch break), he went to a DSLR.
Ah, I should pull it out again, I charged the batteries recently. I can't get that level of darkness, or detail.

[OzEclipse (Joe Cali)]

Originally Posted by Leo.G

That's lovely Joe!
The only fisheye I've played with is an accessory lens that screwed on the front of the camera lens (possibly on my ...crap, I forget), ah, Lumix FZ50, lovely camera (luckily it's on a shelf right beside me with 10-15 other old cameras and heaven knows how many lenses).
I still got some nice results Not as good as yours because the extension fisheye was a German thing I got with the camera from a French tourist (original owner with paperwork I met at a Epping railway station to pick the camera up during his work lunch break), he went to a DSLR.
Ah, I should pull it out again, I charged the batteries recently. I can't get that level of darkness, or detail.

I had one of those. Those screw on fish eye lenses need the lens stopped down to about f11. Mine went missing in action on one of my overseas solar eclipse chases. I used it to do all sky videos of the shadow passage across the sky. It was used in parts of this video:-
https://vimeo.com/user4541365
Joe

[Leo.G (Leo)]

WOW, they are stunning videos, I'm going back to watch them all later.
I am not however surprised they are of the highest quality!
I always liked my FZ50, I still have some very nice family shots (of family I don't see) taken at my mothers funeral in 2008 in Queensland.

[OzEclipse (Joe Cali)]

Originally Posted by Leo.G

WOW, they are stunning videos, I'm going back to watch them all later.
I am not however surprised they are of the highest quality!
I always liked my FZ50, I still have some very nice family shots (of family I don't see) taken at my mothers funeral in 2008 in Queensland.

The 2010 eclipse video that I linked was made 15 years ago and shot with a low res video cam. My video editing software had lots of posterisation artefacts especially when inserting stills into the video stream.

Software is much better now.

Joe