This morning while waiting for the Sunrise I took a few stabs at Saturn....again!! I haven't done too well with the new BEAST camera.......always seems overexposed and jittery so I increase the shutter speed to 1/20th of a second and got the attached shots!! Not bad for a Nikon P1000 Super Zoom on a sandbag perched on the dock handrail.....FINALLY!!
Thanks....... It was really frustrating at first but when I figgered out I needed to speed the shutter up it worked out well!!
I was FINALLY calm enough this morning to get a few descent shots of Jupiter and it's four visible Moons!! It's lower in the Western Sky making it easier for me to hold the camera still on the sandbag I use to steady it!! The first photo is in color and the second is the same photo converted to B&W.....which one looks better to you??
Hey billyd.......it's an "All-In-One" Nikon Coolpix P1000 (3000 mm Zoom).......link below!! https://www.nikonusa.com/en/nikon-products/product/compact-digital-cameras/coolpix-p1000.html It's quite impressive and quite BIG.....lotsa FUN!!
I bought a Cannon and they don't even come close to, as far as I can tell, for a teley like that. Knowing the Nikon was a better camera and, in the past, I had been doing professional photography for a few years and amateur all my life, I Chickened out buying a Nikon because of the digital "stuff". Didn't want to invest in something that was as foreign technology-wise as a analog phone to an iPhone. Also, I've always worked in a darkroom with the 35mm and 120/220mm cameras. I still haven't gotten down all the crap with the digital cameras when it comes to "photography". I guess I need to play more and then go to the upgrade!
I have friends that are true "Photographers" like you that have closed up shop (digital and cell phones killed 'em) and my Father did a lot of B&W Dark Room stuff but I never cared for all that!! Bought my first digital camera back in 1999 and never looked back....... I do Sunrise photos daily down here and have been for over 10 years......have about 300 folks on my daily mailing list and shoot about 25K-30K photos a year........I have no clue what an F-Stop is (not important) but manage to get by OK......actually this camera all but talks to ya.......give one a whirl....you'll be impressed!!
Yeah, the Canon pretty much does the same. It just doesn't have the lens features that Nikon has plus some. As for f stop, size of the aperture - how much light is let in to the lens.f/8 is going to have a greater "allowance" of exposure than say f/22. The smaller the # the more light exposure relative to the shutter speed. Bottomline, if memory serves, it increases the depth of field.
Those are really cool captures! Well done! You have inspired me to drag out my gear soon and attempt some night-shots, soon. Thank you very much for sharing your work with us!
Thanks Skeeter.....always my pleasure!! After many attempts and just before giving up completely I got a fair shot of the ISS panning freehand and that thing really moves out! If ya squint a little you can see it's shape!!
Thanks again Skeeter....have a look around my website when you have the time!! https://coosawjackphotography.com/
Thanks Larry....I really need to add more photos sometime....but...I've been lazy lately....kinda comes with being "older", ya know!!
Good shots of Jupiter and Saturn, Coosawjack. Hard to get clear pictures with that much zoom without a solid mounting. Now, put the two together in the same image. This is a picture of the Great Conjunction, from Dec 21, 2020. I made these through an 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. It's difficult to get a lot of definition without washing out the image. If I exposed long enough to get the Jovian moons more clearly, Jupiter became a brighter fuzzy ball and Saturn's rings were indistinguishable from the planet, so all you could see was a yellow oval
Thanks Headspace........I had a tripod but it was hard to set up and just too much trouble so my Bean Bag seems stable enough with multiple shots I usually get something descent?? As far as these photos are concerned...the Planets were low in the Western sky and atmospheric aberration cased most of that blurring!!
