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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: eronald on January 04, 2011, 04:19:57 pm

Title: Is this medium format?
Post by: eronald on January 04, 2011, 04:19:57 pm

http://www.rinnestam.se/thierry_eclipse_iss.jpg (http://www.rinnestam.se/thierry_eclipse_iss.jpg)

Original picture Thierry Legault, his site is slashdotted.

Title: Re: Is this medium format?
Post by: feppe on January 04, 2011, 05:37:07 pm

Judging by the filename (link doesn't work) it's Thierry Legault's shot of the partial eclipse with ISS in the same frame. He used Canon 5D MkII. Here the source (http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/eclipse110104_solar_transit.html).

He shot to fame a while ago by shooting Endeavour and ISS in front of the sun. The logistics of pulling off a feat like this are incredible. According to the above link the space station passes the sun in 0.86 seconds.

Title: Re: Is this medium format?
Post by: eronald on January 04, 2011, 10:22:46 pm

Yes, that picture is literally out of this world. It's also amazing that his setup with 5D2 appears to resolve well under a meter at that distance. Maybe spy sats are quite simple to make OTS these days :)

Edmund

Title: Re: Is this medium format?
Post by: eronald on January 04, 2011, 10:36:54 pm

Here's a better link, with details.

http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/eclipse110104_solar_transit.html

Title: Re: Is this medium format?
Post by: bradleygibson on January 04, 2011, 10:44:52 pm

Photoshop.






JUUUUST kidding!  This is awesome.  I wish I'd thought of it!  :)  Thanks for posting this, Edmund.

He shoulda used flash, though.  That moon's pretty blocked up.  ;)

Title: Re: Is this medium format?
Post by: KevinA on January 05, 2011, 07:47:09 am

The BBC here in the UK have been running live Stargazing nights on TV the last few evenings. Some of the pictures shown are quite breathtaking, not just from the fancy sat telescopes but the guy in his back garden as well.
We even had a presenter standing in a field and a meteor burning up behind him he did not even know about.
Anyone that gets a chance to tune into it tonight should do so.

Kevin.

Title: Re: Is this medium format?
Post by: feppe on January 05, 2011, 03:08:40 pm

Quote from: KevinA on January 05, 2011, 07:47:09 am

The BBC here in the UK have been running live Stargazing nights on TV the last few evenings. Some of the pictures shown are quite breathtaking, not just from the fancy sat telescopes but the guy in his back garden as well.
We even had a presenter standing in a field and a meteor burning up behind him he did not even know about.
Anyone that gets a chance to tune into it tonight should do so.

Kevin.

This guy (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7042005/Space-pictures-taken-from-garden-shed.html) spent less than what an MFD system costs and is taking pictures on his backyard that are compared to Hubble's.

Title: Re: Is this medium format?
Post by: geesbert on January 06, 2011, 04:50:57 am

I think it's Darth Vader fleeing form the exploding Death Star.

Title: Re: Is this medium format?
Post by: rhsu on January 07, 2011, 06:34:38 pm

Nice ...

(Love the good humours here...)

Title: Re: Is this medium format?
Post by: ggriswold on January 07, 2011, 07:16:46 pm

The image shows three planes in space: the Sun at 150 million km, the Moon at about 400000 km and the ISS at 500 km.

Let's pray the facts above don't trigger a depth of field discussion! :D