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Legacy Astrophotography: IC 1396 Region in Cepheus
Cepheus is home to many bright and faint emission nebulae, the largest and brightest being IC1396.
Pentax 67 300mm f/4 SMC Takumar @ f/5.6 40 minutes exposure on Kodak E200 pushed +2 stops. Full frame, no crop. Scanned on an Epson V600 and processed in Photoshop and PixInsight.
Not bad for film and 1980's equipment, eh.
The Legacy Project is a planned sequence of photographs of the night sky. Over the last several years astrophotographers have switched to digital as the medium of choice. While there are many reasons to do this, film is still a great way to capture wide-field images of the Milky Way and the sky in general.
The project's mission is to continue film's "Legacy" as a medium for long exposure images of the night sky.
The sequence of photos started in October 2009 and will end at a point yet to be detemined.
Great care has been given to compose, expose, and process each image. Only the best combination of film, lenses and exposure times are used.
Each image is shot under the dark skies of my home in Maine.
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Comment by James Cormier on July 6, 2011 at 3:54am
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Hi Marc, Thanks. Yea, skies are really good up here as you know from your visits. That's one ingredient film work has to have. The rest is patient long exposures manually corrected, and watching out for aircraft. Coaxing the information from the film is perhaps the most difficult. As for Akira Fuji, most excellent I agree, and an inspiration.
Steve, enjoy your trip up to our great state. They don't call it vacationland for nothing. I'm 20 minutes from Schoodic and it is a treasure to have in my "back yard".
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Comment by Steve Coates on July 4, 2011 at 6:50pm
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My family and I will be in Maine in a few weeks. We'll start Belfast for the first part and wind down at the family camp in Oxford. I plan to bring the CG5, guide scope and a newly aquired Nikon 180mm ED lens. Can't wait to see the Milky Way again!
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Comment by Trevor Woodrow on July 4, 2011 at 6:10pm
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lol, Marc's got Sky Envy...
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Comment by Marc Basti on July 4, 2011 at 5:45pm
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Glad to see film still being used, to this day I still think Akira Fujii's widefields are the best ever taken. Keep up the great work. Marc PS Been to Schoodic Point several times, I envy your sky.
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Hi Trevor. Yes it is my project. No one else shooting film seriously. Right now the home to the project is at my Flickr site .
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So is this your project or something you are apart of?
Great grab.
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Thanks very much Steve. I enjoy the difference that film affords. As such, I feel free to produce the images without spending a fortune on equipment as well as providing a technical challenge to keep me interested. The E200 film is like a Ha sponge. Love it!
Have a happy 4th of July. BTW, we are headed to Eastport for the day. There is going to be an Elvis impersonator there. Should be fun. I can't wait.
Thanks again.
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Nice work James. One would never know that this was taken with "vintage" equipment. This hobby is quite difficult. I enjoy looking at pictures that were done like yours (with film). There is someone on this site that images through a home made "DIY" scope. This hobby will never get old...
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