APART from doing the Watec 902H video imaging of the Leonids I also tried out fixed tripod wide angle photography.I bought the 8mm Peleng f/3.5 Russian Lens about a year ago and had not done much with the lens. I was curious just how many Leonids could I catch. In addition the distorted view lend another unusual look of the sky. The lens came with a screw mount and Nikon mount.Since I had only one Nikon camera so it ended up in Nikon FM10 - a manual camera. [ unlike the totally unattended operation of pre-programmed 6 Canon T-70s array on my the other setups] I stood this camera together with another Canon EOS 3000 S.L.R fitted with a 15mm f3.5 lens (both needed a cable release but the latter with auto film rewind) on the same tripod with a super-plate to support dual cameras. The objective of these wide angle lens pairs was solely for recording bright very long trails fireball. When the film was developed in 4R I was not at all impressed. Attempt to use flat bed scanning only introduced ugly mechanical roller mark. Then I ask my photo savvy coworker for help. He scanned the negatives using a Nikon Coolpix scanner at 1350 dpi and the results was excellent. I 'rediscover' my 'lost' meteors. An example was attached here. The cropped image on the right showed three red color Leonids close to polar star in Camelopardus / Cepheusis border. Clicking the image below for a closer look and spot the leonids. Take a look around the oversize image and you will be amazed by the numbers of meteors picked up by the 8 mm lens. In it meteor trains were starting to show on the brighter meteors. There was even a bright red Leonid that get 'framed' by the a enclosed box structure. Many more were found hugging the eastern horizon. On the right edge was the white building that housed BOAO's 1.8 meter reflector.
APART from doing the Watec 902H video imaging of the Leonids I also tried out fixed tripod wide angle photography.I bought the 8mm Peleng f/3.5 Russian Lens about a year ago and had not done much with the lens. I was curious just how many Leonids could I catch. In addition the distorted view lend another unusual look of the sky. The lens came with a screw mount and Nikon mount.Since I had only one Nikon camera so it ended up in Nikon FM10 - a manual camera. [ unlike the totally unattended operation of pre-programmed 6 Canon T-70s array on my the other setups] I stood this camera together with another Canon EOS 3000 S.L.R fitted with a 15mm f3.5 lens (both needed a cable release but the latter with auto film rewind) on the same tripod with a super-plate to support dual cameras. The objective of these wide angle lens pairs was solely for recording bright very long trails fireball. When the film was developed in 4R I was not at all impressed. Attempt to use flat bed scanning only introduced ugly mechanical roller mark. Then I ask my photo savvy coworker for help. He scanned the negatives using a Nikon Coolpix scanner at 1350 dpi and the results was excellent. I 'rediscover' my 'lost' meteors. An example was attached here. The cropped image on the right showed three red color Leonids close to polar star in Camelopardus / Cepheusis border. Clicking the image below for a closer look and spot the leonids. Take a look around the oversize image and you will be amazed by the numbers of meteors picked up by the 8 mm lens. In it meteor trains were starting to show on the brighter meteors. There was even a bright red Leonid that get 'framed' by the a enclosed box structure. Many more were found hugging the eastern horizon. On the right edge was the white building that housed BOAO's 1.8 meter reflector.
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