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To: dragnet2

“the camera can see so much more and I get to look at the images later.”

I get that. I’m just fed up with all of the digital image massaging. I might change my mind.

I saw a news report that film photography was making a comeback.

My son and law takes night sky photos with his digital camera. Quite good.


15 posted on 10/20/2022 4:45:31 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline

Even in film in photography they were able to manipulate the images/photographs, but instead of a computer, they did their magic in a darkroom.

Btw, I did film early on, but the huge problem is the exposures have to be so long and it takes high precision tracking to follow an object that long. With digital I take 150 images at say 60 seconds each, and later process them into one image. Tracking or guiding is still critical but much easier taking a bunch of 60 second exposures as opposed to tracking an object for 60 minutes of continuous exposure.
For me film became too expensive to develop. With digital I get it quickly without having to wait for 4 days to get the images back.

Personally, if not for digital cameras, I would have likely pursued other interests.


20 posted on 10/20/2022 9:31:17 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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