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Posted: Sat Jul 7th, 2018 03:37

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Robert

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amazing50 wrote:
The Nikon MC-36, 10 pin wired remote has a manual button lock. Works on the D850 and others with an adapter.

Interesting Mike, I only have the ML3 infra red remote, but for what I do I prefer to take many shorter exposures, for several reasons, the D3 sensor can be very prone to overheating on long exposures which results in ugly banding and excessive noise, If there is an intrusion into the field of view such as a wandering sightseer or an unwanted car headlamp etc. I can delete that one frame without jeopardising the entire sequence. The software technique I use tends to remove wandering intruders into the frame but if not that frame can either be removed or doctored to fix the intrusion.

Another reason is it gives me more control over the exposure, at this time of year particularly the light is constantly changing, I can adjust the exposure as the light changes.

In order to get meaningful star trails I need at least 30 to 60 minuets of exposure time otherwise the trails are just too short.

Star trails per se are not particularly photogenic, while they make an interesting background, in my opinion you need a subject too!

I attempted one a couple of nights ago, while I got a lovely sunset to darkness time-lapse, as darkness fell security lighting kept coming on and ruined many of my exposures, way too many to ignore so I gave up.

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Posted: Sat Jul 7th, 2018 04:00

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jk wrote:
Surprised you didnt go join the film crew that were making the event. I guess it was a piece to camera for sale somewhere.

Like the sunrise shot. The 24-120 f4 really is a go to lens.

Good spot of the lghts on Scafell. With all the HSE in modern life people resort to all sorts of more dangerous stuff to bring some adrenalin into a boring life!

No thanks! They looked like a bunch of weirdo's. With that many involved it must have been commercial, they all seemed to know exactly what they were doing, like they did it every day? Perhaps it will appear in Coronation Street soon?

I am extremely pleased with it, I had been dithering about a 'mid length' zoom lens for years, feeling the 24-70 being way too short a range for my taste and well overrated in the quality department for my needs. It was Malcolm with his steam punk photography which first raised my awareness of the Nikkor 24-120 f/4.0. It's a convenient focal length range on FX and not too heavy, with VR, which is very useful. I am very pleased about how it responded to shooting directly into the sun like that.

It seems there is a 'three peaks' challenge every weekend throughout the summer. We are back up there tonight to try again, maybe get a better time-lapse set this time.

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