Subject: through-the-scope photography experiments
Date: Mar 6 17:35:38 2000
From: Mike Wagenbach - wagen13 at yahoo.com


REgarding the need for image stabilization, does anyone know what the
effective shutter speed of a digital camera is? In other words,
in the absence of image stab., how steady does the camera have to be
held??

Mike

--- sanjer at televar.com wrote:
>
>
>
> > Can you tell us how you did this, it's quite impressive. Are you
> using a
> > tripod on the digital camera or just holding it?
>
> Something I forgot to mention was that I cut a piece of paper towel
> tube such
> that when slipped over the eyepiece of the scope it extended about
> 3/4" away
> from the glass. This gave me a more solid surface to hold the camera
> lens
> against. The scope was on the tripod and I hand held the camera
> against it. I
> did not use a cable release. One advantage to using the Sony Mavica
> FD91 is
> that it has image stabilization. You can even take 60 seconds of
> video with
> sound and still get it all on a 3 1/2" floppy disk! No..I'm not a
> sales rep.
> for Sony. :-)
>
>
> Jerry and Sandy Converse
> Grand Coulee, WA
> mailto:sanjer at televar.com
> http://ConverseCorner.com
>
> Never be afraid to try something new.
> Remember, amateurs built the Ark and
> Professionals built the Titanic.
>
>
>

=====
Mike Wagenbach wagen13 at yahoo.com
wagenATuDOTwashingtonDOTedu Seattle WA

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