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Shot the moon on film in 2004, now I stack 200 frames in my kitchen and it feels like cheating
Back in 2004 I drove out past Tucson with a roll of 400 speed film and a borrowed 300mm lens, and getting one usable moon shot took two rolls and a lot of luck. Now I sit in my kitchen with an old DSLR and free software, and last Tuesday I stacked 200 frames of the Orion Nebula before my coffee went cold. Does anyone else miss the waiting, or is it just me being old and stubborn?
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emma_jones14m ago
The waiting was half the fun and nobody can tell me different. I spent a whole night camped out in my backyard with a cheap telescope and a film camera back around 2006, losing feeling in my fingers just to get a blurry white blob that I was still proud of. There was something about not knowing what you got until the roll came back that made every good shot feel like a real win. Now I can see the screen right away and just delete the bad ones, and some of the magic is gone with it. Idk, maybe we are just old and stubborn, but I miss when getting the shot actually meant something. Half the hobby now is just owning a laptop and clicking a button a bunch of times.
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