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Thanks. I'll see if the sky's any clearer tonight.There is still a chance some could be seen tonight. I posted some info about it here yesterday.
I tried to get some this morning, but it didn't quite work out. I started with my Sigma 10-20 hoping to cover a large area to ensure I got some meteors in the image, but at F4 wide open, the fast streaks of light didn't seem to be bright enough or long enough lasting to register.
I tried to gauge what settings I would need by just taking shots of bright stationary stars for the length of time that the comet would likely be visible (very short, obviously), and adjust my settings until some of the brighter stars began to appear in a single quick shot. At F4 on my Sigma, I had to have a very long (compared to a meteors visibility anyway) exposure before any stationary stars showed up, so a meteor of equal brightness would have to be in the sky for many seconds before the light would register to the sensor. Like that would happen. I could have bumped up my ISO, but then I would run the risk of overexposing and washing out any meteors, or the meteors happening after the image was already washed out. I suppose I could have made an exact science and figured out when the image became too washed out, but the conditions weren't very ideal for this where I was.
So, I decided to scrap the idea of using wide angle, and went to my 50mm 1.8 to increase my chances of the fast streaking light registering. Still though, I didn't get any meteors in any shots. I think the 50mm field of view was too narrow and hindered chances of catching any meteors. Another problem I ran into was cars would drive by the mountain road and I think they helped to wash out my pics, that plus I left the shutter open for a while to hopefully capture a meteor which made it wash out more also. In retrospect, I probably should have just done one shot after another of 20-30sec, but I had my wife with me so if I was working with my camera every 30 sec she would have been rather frustrated.
I think that is one of the key points though, don't take your wife with you when shooting difficult captures.
I think that is one of the key points though, don't take your wife with you when shooting difficult captures.
Fixed :greenpbl: