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		<title>By: RAPH</title>
		<link>http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2008/04/lunar-eclipse-pictures/comment-page-1/#comment-271</link>
		<dc:creator>RAPH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanos,

Thanks for your reply.

Wish I could give you more information than I actually have but hereâ€™s what I do have.
Pics were shot with a tripod mounted Nikon D-50 set to â€œlarge/fineâ€ .jpg format with a Guardforce SR-732 Zoom Spotting scope. (15-45X65mm) mounted to the camera body via adapter and activated with a remote control to eliminate shake.

This was an experiment Iâ€™ve wanted to do for a long time, film cameras making it cost prohibitive.  I shot over 300 frames before I got this series.  Thereâ€™s about 40 other photos in this series so I just picked the ones here as representative of the event.

Since there is no aperture setting for the scope, the only other setting I had to work with was shutter speed and since, for some reason the camera didnâ€™t record that information and I, unfortunately, didnâ€™t record it anywhere either (duh) I canâ€™t tell you anything other than it was set to manual and I just shot about 10-15-20 frames at a time until I got the resolution (manual focus of the scope was also an issue) and brightness/contrast I wanted.  Additionally, I did tweak the brightness/contrast a bit in Photoshop and re-sized the shots to a manageable size.

Sorry I couldnâ€™t give you more info.  Basically it was, shoot 10-15-20 frames, download and view in the computer, shoot another batch, repeat until satisfactory results were achieved. 

RAPH</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanos,</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply.</p>
<p>Wish I could give you more information than I actually have but hereâ€™s what I do have.<br />
Pics were shot with a tripod mounted Nikon D-50 set to â€œlarge/fineâ€ .jpg format with a Guardforce SR-732 Zoom Spotting scope. (15-45X65mm) mounted to the camera body via adapter and activated with a remote control to eliminate shake.</p>
<p>This was an experiment Iâ€™ve wanted to do for a long time, film cameras making it cost prohibitive.  I shot over 300 frames before I got this series.  Thereâ€™s about 40 other photos in this series so I just picked the ones here as representative of the event.</p>
<p>Since there is no aperture setting for the scope, the only other setting I had to work with was shutter speed and since, for some reason the camera didnâ€™t record that information and I, unfortunately, didnâ€™t record it anywhere either (duh) I canâ€™t tell you anything other than it was set to manual and I just shot about 10-15-20 frames at a time until I got the resolution (manual focus of the scope was also an issue) and brightness/contrast I wanted.  Additionally, I did tweak the brightness/contrast a bit in Photoshop and re-sized the shots to a manageable size.</p>
<p>Sorry I couldnâ€™t give you more info.  Basically it was, shoot 10-15-20 frames, download and view in the computer, shoot another batch, repeat until satisfactory results were achieved. </p>
<p>RAPH</p>
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		<title>By: Thanos</title>
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		<dc:creator>Thanos</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Those are great! Would you care to share what your camera settings were and what lens you used?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those are great! Would you care to share what your camera settings were and what lens you used?</p>
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