Camera Settings Astrophotography

https://www.adorama.com/alc/what-camera-settings-should-i-use-for-astrophotography/

What Camera Settings Should I Use for Astrophotography?

Set Camera Dial to Manual Exposure Mode
Adjust Exposure Compensation to Zero
Go With a Very Wide Aperture
Use Longer Shutter Speeds
Set High ISO Levels
Turn the Auto-Focus Feature OFF
Select the Highest Resolution and Quality Setting
Choose the RAW (or RAW + JPEG) Image File Format
Set White Balance to Daylight
Turn In-Camera Long Exposure Noise Reduction OFF
Disable In-Camera Sharpening OFF
Set Color Space to sRGB
Turn Built-In Flash OFF
Use a Remote Shutter Release
Shoot in Bulb Mode
Enable Mirror Lockup
Cover the Viewfinder

Written by Adorama

Updated on May 6, 2022

LSST Astronomy- Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

https://lsst.slac.stanford.edu/

https://www.lsst.org/about/camera

When it takes up residency at the Vera Rubin Observatory in the high desert of Cerro Pachon, Chile, its job will be to capture the southern night sky, snapping an image every 15 seconds. The camera will capture 3,200 megapixels per shot and collect 15 terabytes of data per night over a 10 year period. It’s estimated there will be 10,000 scientific users for the data, including backyard telescope hobbyists.

Argus- DARPA

Weekly Vocabulary

Zoopraxiscope-

The zoöpraxiscope (initially named zoographiscope and zoogyroscope) is an early device for displaying moving images and is considered an important predecessor of the movie projector. It was conceived by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879 (and built for him by January 1880 to project his famous chronophotographic pictures in motion and thus prove that these were authentic).

..it is the first apparatus ever used, or constructed, for synthetically demonstrating movements analytically photographed from life, and in its resulting effects is the prototype of all the various instruments which, under a variety of names, are used for a similar purpose at the present day.

— Eadweard Muybridge, Animals in Motion (1899)^[4]

Kinetoscope-

The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device. The Kinetoscope was not a movie projector, but introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video, by creating the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter.

Chronophotography-Chronophotography is a photographic technique from the Victorian era which captures a number of phases of movements. The best known chronophotography works were mostly intended for the scientific study of locomotion, to discover practical information for animal handlers and/or as reference material for artists. Although many results were not intended to be exhibited as moving pictures, there is much overlap with the more or less simultaneous quest to register and exhibit photographic motion pictures.

Artist of the Week Eadweard Muybridge

http://www.eadweardmuybridge.co.uk/

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/eadweard-muybridge

http://www.eadweardmuybridge.co.uk/

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/eadweard-muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge
Leland Stanford, Jr. on his Pony "Gypsy"—Phases of a Stride by a Pony While Cantering 1879
http://www.moma.org/collection/artists/4192

https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=39117

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: Muybridge's famous 1878 photo sequence depicts three full strides made by Stanford's prize trotting horse, Abe Edgington. Around the middle of each stride, all four feet lift at once--as shown, for instance, in the next-to-last frame.

1. How is the technical quality?

   2. How’s the composition?

   3. What do you find interesting about his work?

Digital Photography 2023-2024

Friday, March 1, 2024

Line Animation

Star Trail Photography