Venus Jupiter Conjunction March 19 2012 Over St. Lazare Québec

Regrettably no Canada Geese deigned to fly through my photos tonight. All of the above photographs were taken with my Sony Alpha A35 SLT camera using a Minolta AF APO TELE ZOOM 100-400mm F/4.5-6.7 for the old Maxxum AF 35mm film cameras. The aperature used was f/8 or f/9 and the early exposures were from .5 seconds to 1 second whereas the later exposures showing some "star trailing" ranged between 10 seconds and 20 seconds. The longer exposures were timed by hand as it were since I used a "shutter" made of a black velvet bag over my outspread hand held a few inches away from the front of the lens to completely eliminate any "shutter bounce" from the long exposures. The ISO was set at 100 for the early images and ranged up to 800 ISO for the later photographs.

Port De Montreal Panoramic Photographs Shot Using The Sweep Panorama™ Mode Of A Sony Alpha A35 Digital SLT Camera

Habitat 67 with two Canada Steamship Lines "Lakers" parked for the winter. Viewed from a hangar to the east of the skating rink in the Old Port. This Sweep Panorama™ panoramic photograph was shot hand-held using a Sony Alpha A35 with a Minolta Maxxum 100-400mm f4.5-6.7 APO zoom lens set at approximately 200mm if I remember correctly. All panoramic photos were uploaded to this blog at 25% of the full resolution. Click on the images on this page to see the much larger 25% resolution images.

Habitat 67 with two Canada Steamship Lines "Lakers" parked for the winter. Viewed from the west in the Vieux Port de Montreal. This Sweep Panorama™ panoramic photograph was shot hand-held using a Sony Alpha A35 with a Minolta Maxxum 100-400mm f4.5-6.7 APO zoom lens set at approximately 100mm.

Two parked Lakers in the Vieux Port de Montreal. This Sweep Panorama™ mode panoramic photograph was shot hand-held with a Sony Alpha A35 using an 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 Sony zoom lens set at 18mm.