I've never tried to shoot meteors before, and was curious if anyone had any tips, tricks or settings that they would be willing to share that might increase my sucess.
Aperature, ISO settings...noise reduction settings...
Additionally, say with a 24mm lens, how long a shutter speed can you go before the stars appear to show movement?
Thanks in advance, and get out there this weekend!
Posted by Jeff Wiebe on August 10, 2007 at 11:24 AM
Hi Jim, that sounds awesome, too bad I've got work on Monday morning...
I can't speak for the ISO, but in my recent star shooting ventures, I've noticed some star movement around the 4 or 5 minute mark. But that's when I'm looking for it. Hope that helps a little.
Never done meteors...but I've done star trails...but with film on bulb...but for shutter speed...just open it up or use f8...which is pretty safe...since your'e shooting the sky at night, shutter speed doesn't really matter, because it's going to be a long exposure no matter what you do, because you can't predict the meteors. That would be my solution...have fun!
Jim, I've seen a photograph of a tent in the night sky (probably posted here or PN), and the settings used to get nice circular trails was F5.6 and 2 hours (obviously with bulb mode and cable release, most probably pizza included too )
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I've never tried to shoot meteors before, and was curious if anyone had any tips, tricks or settings that they would be willing to share that might increase my sucess.
Aperature, ISO settings...noise reduction settings...
Additionally, say with a 24mm lens, how long a shutter speed can you go before the stars appear to show movement?
Thanks in advance, and get out there this weekend!
I can't speak for the ISO, but in my recent star shooting ventures, I've noticed some star movement around the 4 or 5 minute mark. But that's when I'm looking for it. Hope that helps a little.
Never done meteors...but I've done star trails...but with film on bulb...but for shutter speed...just open it up or use f8...which is pretty safe...since your'e shooting the sky at night, shutter speed doesn't really matter, because it's going to be a long exposure no matter what you do, because you can't predict the meteors. That would be my solution...have fun!
Cynthia Spence
www.geolightphoto.com
600 (divided by) your focal leingth = longest possible exposure at f 2.8 with 400 asa film or iso setting
for example, 50 mm lense = 12 seconds (plus or minus 3 seconds seems to be OK)
or
your 24 mm lense = 25 seconds
Give it a try and see what you can come up with.
http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/meteor.shtml