Two weeks ago a friend of mine and I realized, that we should make a phototour again. We discused what motive we would like to capture. Saxon Switzerland, old town silhouette again, ...? The plan was we wanted to photograph the Milkyway. So we did some reseach on what would be the best way doing that. During that he found several apps, which aim to help in getting the perfect shot, such as SunSurveyor and Photopills. These apps are quite expensive with €8 to €12, but he decided to buy Photopills and of course wanted to try it out right away. So he planned a shot, placeing the sun right at the tip of castle in Moritzburg during sunset.
At frist we wanted to get the shot on Sunday the 21st but as timing was bad and overcast would have ruined the shot, we pospened to Monday.
As some time ago I found my das's old Canon EOS 5 SLR camera, I was intrigt on taking some shot on analog film. There was only a slight problem... lenses. For the EOS 7D, I'ld usally used we (my family) have only 3 lenes. An 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 EF-S Lens, the 18-35mm Kit Lens (EF-S) and a 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM EF. With only the last one useable for the EOS 5, which today we would refer to as full-frame. But on another old EOS 1000F or someting, I found an old 30-80m f/4-5.6 EF Lens with a platic bayonet. So probably not a good lens, but it should do the job (I thought).
So Step one. Buying a film. Suppriseingly Rossman Drugstore, still offers analog film, also if only three different typs. But Kodak ISO400 Color should be enough for the begining. Step 2. Buying a Battery. Apperantly old camera where not driven by properitey rechargeable batteries. You need an uncommon (but not properitery) 2CR5 battery. MediaMarkt to the rescure... €8 quite expensive... but okay...
Arriving at location, insert the film. But how long to pull the film...? After some reserach, there is an obvios red mark inside the film compartment... so yeah... okay...
To get a feeling fot the settings it first took are picture with the DSLR and replicated the settings on the EOS 5. So how is the result? Difficult to say at this moment... It an analog camera, there is no display and you need to wait until the film is developed...
So I took some photos with the DSLR and the SLR... here is what the digital photos looked like
 1/60 f/11 ISO400 18mm |
 1/200 f/9 ISO400 18mm (HDR, 3 stacked) |
 1/8 f/20 ISO400 41mm |
So still overcast and not quite what we expected. But the results are still good.
While driving back. The lighting of the clouds looked amazing and I thought the observatory in Radebeul would be a good place to caputre this. But the result is sobering...
1/15 f/6 ISO100 25mm
Not terrible, not good, just nah...
The film was not full yet. So the next day we tried the old town silhouette in Dresden again. As before I took digital and analog pictures. By coincidence, I relized that Jupiter and Saturn are visible this eving. But they are usaly quite small at the sky without a telescope and some foreground. But I guess some fine-tuneing and magic does the trick.
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 1/320 f/8 ISO400 36mm |
 1/2 f/5 ISO100 19mm (HDR, 3 stacked) |
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Now two weeks later, my film is developed and I got some results.
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For my first try with analog these are already some good shots I guess. In these four, I checked lighting and frameing with the DSLR first, which could probably be considered cheating. But the next two are done analog only while packing up... no digital testing before.
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No trail without error. These are the rejects.
And the secound day
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And again the rejects. And here I realied, the Lens was not ok. Before I already noticed the indicators where flickering, which turned out to be a malfunctioning AF-motor so two shots where out of focus. And I also lern, when checking lightling conditions with the DLSR, that similar settings with the SLR will not yield to a successful shoot, even if the camara is indicating perfect exposure. This is called the Schwarzschild-effect.
