Thoughts On Rails

I’ll be in Rajasthan for the next 7 to 8 days :-) Mostly for other work, but photography will not be neglected :-)

Hahaha :-)

Alright. I’ll stop. But almost 8 years of dialup use had made me thinking in 56k by now. Hopefully this means more frequent photo uploads!

The complete survey results are out, and hopefully Nikon will take note of this!!! Oh please oh please oh please!

http://www.openraw.org/

:-)

The gearlust is starting to set in really badly now. I have started feeling that I *need* a particular lens rather than just *wanting* it. Take for example yesterday night, I was photographing all night on the top of Shah hill (Salabat Khan’s Tomb) in cold wind… and could not get even one meteor!

Our team noted 37 meteors over 4 hours, but not even one made its way onto the frame. Main issue was that my usual lens gives f/3.3 aperture… that means that only one third of the actual light reaches the sensor. It covers a considerably wide area, but it cannot detect small light sources like the meteors. The next option was a borrowed lens - it went upto f/1.4 almost three fourths / 75% light reaches the sensor through this lens, but it does nto cover as much area as the other lens. Only a very narrow portion was photographed at any given instance. So well, the whole plan to photograph a meteor was a BIG failure yesterday.

BUT BUT BUT… I managed to get some fantastic photos of the night sky!

I’m in the process of uploading them now. Will post more about those photos soon :-)