Nighttime Panoramas

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Anyone that has some nighttime panoramic shots they want to showcase, please share them - would love to see what you can come up with.

Here is a set to start the thread off with :
welgevonden1.jpg

welgevonden2.jpg

Lens : Schneider-Kreuznach 28-420mm (Variogon)
Camera : Kodak Z1015
Exposure time : 16s
F-number : 3.5
ISO : 80​
 
ldmelsa said:
Why only night scape panoramas? Why not just any night shots?
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Because it takes a lot of time and commitment to make them. So it is kind of an opportunity for you to show your dedication and skills when it comes to taking pictures that are not seen that often, like nighttime panoramas :p

Here is one I did sometime between Saturday and Sunday. I did a lot (60+ shots) at various ISOs and zoom levels :
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I used my waslapod for all of them :cool:

bwana said:
Because the thread is Nighttime Panoramas? :p
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+1 :D
 
If you have the time you could set your shots up so that you start in the afternoon and move across your view with hourly intervals so that you end up into the night. That way you'll get a part day and part night shot.
 


False bay. This was one of the first shots I took with my first DSLR (or nine of the first shots rather!). I had no idea what I was doing. The tripod wasn't level, the light was fading fast, I had Auto-ISO enabled. Pretty much everything I could be doing wrong, I did. The again, the only experience with SLR cameras I had up to then, were with a fully mechanical, fully manual, film body (K1000).

Once I get a new DSLR, more will follow.
 
I don't remember. I think they were 1-2s each. I don't think I paid too much attention. The 40D was a pretty bewildering piece of kit at the time.
 
koffiejunkie said:
I don't remember. I think they were 1-2s each. I don't think I paid too much attention. The 40D was a pretty bewildering piece of kit at the time.
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Still a nice pic.

SLRs often are bewildering :D you shoud try out bridge/zoomer cameras, they are an excellent and cheap gap filler between point and shoot and SLR and many features that have been perfected on bridge cameras are only now starting to become available on SLRs.
 
Rouxenator said:
Still a nice pic.
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:o

Rouxenator said:
SLRs often are bewildering :D you shoud try out bridge/zoomer cameras
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I have a G9 already. TBH, I enjoy my film cameras more.

Rouxenator said:
...and many features that have been perfected on bridge cameras are only now starting to become available on SLRs.
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None that matter to me. If they get the kind of AF and exposure systems that SLRs have working properly in bridge/compact cameras, I might enjoy it more.
 
koffiejunkie said:
I have a G9 already. TBH, I enjoy my film cameras more. None that matter to me. If they get the kind of AF and exposure systems that SLRs have working properly in bridge/compact cameras, I might enjoy it more.
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Isn't film bad for the environment? I mean sure it produces a lot more greenhouse gasses to get a picture on film (taking into account the film needs to be made, distributed, sold, developed and printed) that it would on digital ? Just something I have wondered about for a while now.

Some newer bridge and compact cameras are coming out with bigger sensor sizes and their contrast measurement TTL AF logic is also improving all the time. So it won't be long now :D
 
Rouxenator said:
Isn't film bad for the environment? I mean sure it produces a lot more greenhouse gasses to get a picture on film (taking into account the film needs to be made, distributed, sold, developed and printed) that it would on digital ? Just something I have wondered about for a while now.
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Maybe, but then I don't need to recharge my film camera's battery. Ever. The battery for the light meter last years. I also don't need to power a computer to look get those pictures off the camera and into a viewable format. So there are other ecological savings.
 
koffiejunkie said:
Maybe, but then I don't need to recharge my film camera's battery. Ever. The battery for the light meter last years. I also don't need to power a computer to look get those pictures off the camera and into a viewable format. So there are other ecological savings.
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But the lab processing your film almost certainly does.
koffiejunkie said:
I have a G9 already. TBH, I enjoy my film cameras more.
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I'm glad to be done with film. Those chemicals were always giving me eczema :o

You dont seem to be using that G9 much - dont you enjoy it?
 
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koffiejunkie said:
Maybe, but then I don't need to recharge my film camera's battery. Ever. The battery for the light meter last years. I also don't need to power a computer to look get those pictures off the camera and into a viewable format. So there are other ecological savings.
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I'm not sure the carbon footprints of these mediums match up. Printed pictures are becoming more rare as people keep their photo albums on places like flickr, facebook, photobucket, OVI etc... not to mention on cellphones among the lower ISMs.

But as a hobby or passion I can understand your thing for film ;) I have many such quirks myself :o

bwana said:
But the lab processing your film almost certainly does.I'm glad to be done with film. Those chemicals were always giving me eczema :o
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I'm really not a fan of the way photoshops smell. The Kodak store in Somerset Mall always gives me a headache even when you just walk past it.
 
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