Posts for: axiesdad
Jan 31, 2018 09:15:27 #
Thank you all for the advice. I will check out Registax. Hoggers are the best!
Jan 30, 2018 11:45:53 #
rehess wrote:
Images of what?
How are you attaching D3100 to the telescope?
How are you attaching D3100 to the telescope?
I'm using the adapter made by Meade specifically to mate Nikon cameras to the scope. This (attached) is the best I have managed, not awful, but not as tack sharp as I would like.
Jan 30, 2018 11:03:25 #
First, welcome to the forum. The previous posts offer a lot of good advice (and a few snarky comments). I'm old, both in life and photography, and I've got about the same amount of professional experience as you, but I've been having fun taking pictures for over half a century. So my advice is this, HAVE FUN. Photography is a wonderful hobby that can become an avocation or a career or may never be anything more than fun, but if it stops being fun you will stop taking pictures.
Jan 30, 2018 10:38:29 #
I'm using a Nikon D3100 body attached to a Meade ETX90 telescope. I have not been able to get this combination to capture images that are as sharp as what I see through the eyepiece of the telescope. Any suggestions?
Jan 21, 2018 10:15:06 #
One more suggestion. When I got my DSLR I also bought "Nikon D3100 for Dummies." I expect there is a "D7200 for Dummies." It may not be the best resource out there, but mine certainly helped me learn my way around the camera.
Jan 15, 2018 16:16:22 #
I've had decent results using a hand held slide viewer and a DSLR. One critical element is that there is no dust or lint on thebacklight screen of the viewer or on the slide, it will show through in the lighter parts of the picture. As someone else has suggested, projecting a slide and taking a picture of the image also works.
Jan 9, 2018 10:00:27 #
I have a Nikon D3100 that I've been using for several years now. I have added several lenses and still have only about a thousand dollars invested. Most importantly, I have yet to find the camera inadequate; I am still learning how to get more out of it. To me, cameras are like golf clubs, there is a reason why the player on the pro tour spends tens of thousands on them but the average duffer would be wasting money to spend that much. Stick to your budget, look at used equipment, get something you can grow with, and HAVE FUN!
Jan 1, 2018 21:51:47 #
Jan 1, 2018 21:50:06 #
Very nice shots. Checkout how to use the "save original" button and we will be able to see them even better.
Dec 30, 2017 10:36:39 #
Thank you all for your comments. I too grew up on a farm ; to me this picture isn't about "the poor cows." There is something about perspective (the animals seem to be moving toward the vanishing point) that reinforces the melancholy of the grey winter scene.
Dec 26, 2017 11:16:45 #
Does this picture have any emotional impact? Or am I the only one it speaks to?
Dec 6, 2017 10:59:12 #
I guess Monet should have painted one picture of a grainstack and then moved on to something different.
Dec 6, 2017 10:55:41 #
Cdouthitt wrote:
Fit, yes. Equal borders all around, no. Enlarging by 1.33 will give you no border on the sides and .33" border top and bottom.if you scale up a 6x7 133%, it will fit within an 8x10.
Dec 6, 2017 10:03:00 #
You can't get there from here. You can't have equal borders all around without changing the ratio of length to width or distorting the image. You can have a .333" border top and bottom with nothing on the sides or you can crop the sides to create a 5.6 x 7 which can be enlarged to 8 x 10 with no border.
Nov 7, 2017 14:41:01 #
OOps. I guess I wasn't very clear; I don't do everything one pixel at a time. I copy and paste either rectangles or free form shapes to cover what I don't want. It takes only a few minutes to rough in and then I zoom in to make smaller corrections.
That being said, thank you for some good advice and some info on another program to try.
That being said, thank you for some good advice and some info on another program to try.
glyphtrix wrote:
I STARTED out with MS paint. THat's ALL I could do... (show quote)