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Re: (meteorobs) Re: meteorobs-digest V3 #81
Terry,
Thanks for taking the time to share your insights with us. May I also
add that I request "developing only" and save on the cost for printing.
I then scan the negatives and only print those that have meteors on
them, which is usually only one or two per roll.
Bob Lunsford
"T. M." wrote:
> Because I really enjoy photographing the night sky, I perused the
> suggestions for meteor photography on NAMS website. They were excellent!
> A couple of additional things should be noted there.
>
> Before photgraphing night skies, always take a standard daylight photo as
> the 1st picture on the roll. This will allow processing technicians to
> properly align the negatives for cutting. It is sometimes difficult for
> them to tell where the "frame boundaries" are with night shots, and they may
> inadvertantly cut your best negative in half!
>
> It's also a good practice to include a note explaining that most of the roll
> cnsists of time exposures of the sky, and you want ALL negatives printed. To
> some technicians, a night sky time exposure simply looks like a "bad
> negative". To save you money, they won't bother to print it.
>
> Just wanted to pass along some things I've learned (the hard way) over the
> years.
> terry
>
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