Jim, I would not set the clock in your camera. Rather than reset it, you may want to check the time over several days to see haow far it drifts. That would be a calibration that would get your even closer. Brent --- Jim Gibson <xajax99@yahoo.com> wrote:
Brent
I just went and got a camera pass that will allow me to bring my camera to work tomorrow. We have more precise clocks here than I have at home. Not that 1 or 2 seconds will make much of a difference, but I feel more comfortable with equipment I am familiar with. I will be able to calculate back to the real time tomorrow. Thanks.
Jim
Brent Watson <brentjwatson@yahoo.com> wrote:Jim,
BTW, your focal length was set to 5.9mm and the exposure time was 8 sec. The flash did not fire. The aperture was set at f3.0, with a maximum value of f2.8. It was taken using a Kodak DC4800 Zom Digital Camera. It was using a spot light measuring system, daylight light source, and an EI of 400. It was a manual program.
All this information and more is in the header for the JPEG format.
Brent
--- Jim Gibson wrote:
Patrick
Thank you. You deserve a grate deal of credit for the pictures we all got. You got us in the right place at the right time oriented in the right direction with the right setup. All I did was push the button.
The one thing I kick myself for now is that I
didnt
have my date/time stamp turned on. After working for 17 of the last 27 years in the data collection business and in particular being involved in writing programs that bring a number of different data sets together for analysis, I know how important it is to have properly time coordinated data. With out it the significance of each data set is reduced. It would be easy to assume that the video shown on TV and my picture are data of the same event. There is a good chance that that is not the case. If anyone hasnt seen the video spoken of shown on KSL go to
http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=39&sid=8498
If we consider that the zipper affect started over Hawaii, pieces were falling off over the pacific, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona etc all the way to the final catastrophic event. There were multiple events and without time coloration it makes it very difficult to have confidence in saying these two pictures were of the same event. Patrick from some of your previous statements I feel that the event I captured was of the 6:56 (local time) event. Saying I feel does not inspire a lot of confidence in an important matter. You were astutely the timekeeper besides everything else you were doing. I guess the best we can do is say here is our piece of data.
Just a few thoughts concerning me.
Jim
Patrick Wiggins wrote: I checked the web to see if Jim's picture was in the D News today (Tuesday). Did a search on "Gibson" and got "Utah photo may show breakup of space shuttle" but when I clicked on it it tried to take me to
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view2/1,4382,455029547,00.html?textfield=Gibson
. All that got me was "Not Found The requested object does not exist on this server."
Has anyone been able to get to Jim's picture today?
BTW, kudos to Jim for a fine interview on KSL TV this evening.
Patrick
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