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I'm a newbie here but I thought I'd post a question, as everyone seems very helpful! One of my hobbies is astrophotography and to this end I have an Olympus OM-1 with 50, 100 and 100-200 zoom lenses, I've only started this in last few months and my experience in photography upto then has been mainly with automatic or digital cameras and then using it
with my F-1540mm scope (Orion starmax 127mm)
Any way back to my question! Every year I make the pilgrimage to Fairford and this time I wanted to take my OM-1 to try taking some shots, however I find myself in unfamiliar territory, obviously you don't need to spend an hour making sure your tripod or mount is perfectly polar aligned! I appreciate for fast moving shots a fast shutter speed is needed but for taking shots of fast moving aircraft what sort of settings are generally recommended for a manual camera?
Any tips would be greatly appreciated, in particular I'm hoping that I'll be able to find a general setting for focus, F-stop, shutter speed and only have to adjust one to tweak the exposure for that particular shot.
BTW once while shooting the moon a 747 passed right in front of it making a gorgeous silhouette. I'm hoping to try something like that with Concorde I live under Heathrow flight path so experience it regularly, has anyone done this? Thought I might title it "caught between the moon and New York City" a bit cheesy i know
I’ve been taking some practice shots of Concorde flying over my house and to be honest they’ve all came out fairly terrible, perhaps someone could point out the major flaws or at least the worse one! The shot below, was taken using off the shelf Fujifilm superia 400 with a 200mm zoom lens
Kindest Regards
George
I'm a newbie here but I thought I'd post a question, as everyone seems very helpful! One of my hobbies is astrophotography and to this end I have an Olympus OM-1 with 50, 100 and 100-200 zoom lenses, I've only started this in last few months and my experience in photography upto then has been mainly with automatic or digital cameras and then using it
with my F-1540mm scope (Orion starmax 127mm)
Any way back to my question! Every year I make the pilgrimage to Fairford and this time I wanted to take my OM-1 to try taking some shots, however I find myself in unfamiliar territory, obviously you don't need to spend an hour making sure your tripod or mount is perfectly polar aligned! I appreciate for fast moving shots a fast shutter speed is needed but for taking shots of fast moving aircraft what sort of settings are generally recommended for a manual camera?
Any tips would be greatly appreciated, in particular I'm hoping that I'll be able to find a general setting for focus, F-stop, shutter speed and only have to adjust one to tweak the exposure for that particular shot.
BTW once while shooting the moon a 747 passed right in front of it making a gorgeous silhouette. I'm hoping to try something like that with Concorde I live under Heathrow flight path so experience it regularly, has anyone done this? Thought I might title it "caught between the moon and New York City" a bit cheesy i know
I’ve been taking some practice shots of Concorde flying over my house and to be honest they’ve all came out fairly terrible, perhaps someone could point out the major flaws or at least the worse one! The shot below, was taken using off the shelf Fujifilm superia 400 with a 200mm zoom lens
Kindest Regards
George
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