Here's my take, Patrick and Rob may get slightly different mileage: --- UTAHDEB@aol.com wrote:
1. I found some slide film that I bought from Lumicon in '97. Will this film still work?
Personally I'd toss it and not take the risk with valuable observing time. At this point it's over 7 years old anyway.
It is Kodak P1600 film.
The grainiest color emulsion I have ever used. Didn't make for significantly shorter exposures when I tried it anyway.
2. When you guys say a "long exposure", is this longer than 10 minutes? I doubt that I will be making exposures longer than 10 or 15 minutes.
10 minutes would be very long for a comet shot, especially with such a relatively short focal length lens. I don't think I ever went over 5 minutes on Hale-Bopp. AS soon as I get access to a scanner I'll post some of those shots in the Gallery. Once you start doing astrophotography, suddenly you'll become acutely aware of the sheer number of aircraft in flight in the middle of the night. I don't think I've ever shot an entire roll without at least one aircraft trail on it! C. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover