A photography artist scared of the SLRn

I have owned my SLR n since a week before they discontinued it in 2005. I have been using it to create my digital photography art since:
http://www.luminous-views.com
As of this year this is my full time endeavor.

I was scared the day I read that Kodak was not going to make the SLRn any more and I am now really scared 4+ years later that I will not find anything that can replace the exposures I get when shooting at ASA 6 for minutes.

Who knows of a camera that can really handle the long exposures (that is FF for my wides) like I have become accustom to with this wonderful tool?

excellent.
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Michael:
Nice stuff!

I got my Kodak 2nd hand about the same time you got yours! But I don't find I'm using the low ISO modes on mine very much. I was disappointed in having the clouds move in my long exposures spoiling the image. Sure enjoyed looking at your images using this mode.

You might consider the new FF Sony's if you need a replacement. I don't have one myself, but I see in the specs that the shutter speeds go up to 30 sec plus bulb.

Albert, (from this forum) has had the Sony A900 for a year now, and claims the results are quite a bit superior to the Kodak. (It's also a very good value compared to the Canon & Nikon D3x)

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John Nollendorfs

Thanks for the good words.

Who is Albert and how could I see samples of bulb photography with these Sony's you write of?

Google...

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Michael James said:

Who is Albert and how could I see samples of bulb photography with these Sony's you write of?

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Just click on Albert's handle "APY_Jr" in the forum. You should be able to send him an email. I don't know if he has done any long exposures with his Sony, but I'm sure he could tell you all about it!

How do you avoid the cloud movements in your images? Or do you composite them? ;-)
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John Nollendorfs

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Michael James said:

Who knows of a camera that can really handle the long exposures (that is FF for my wides) like I have become accustom to with this wonderful tool?

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In practice almost any modern digital SLR will do this. Page 13 of DPReview's evaluation of the Canon D60 has an essentially noise-free four-minute exposure taken at ISO 100, and that was back in 2003. The D60 was Canon's second home-grown digital SLR and I am sure their modern equipment is capable of even longer exposures without problems. Having said that, it's worth pointing out that the contemporary Canon 1D professional digital SLR was rubbish in this respect, with offensive purple amplifier noise on lengthy exposures.

As I understand it the DCS Pro's ISO 6 was a software trick designed to emulate the long-duration performance of competing SLRs with a sensor that was incapable of doing so naturally; it stacked and averaged several much shorter exposures taken at the base ISO. I believe astronomers commonly do the same thing for images of the night sky, where exposure times can be hours long. The DCS had to do this because even the revised full-frame sensor was too noisy for conventional long exposures; other SLRs, at least those from Canon, have superior long-duration noise performance and can perform any necessary noise reduction "live".

There's an article on this topic, from an astrophotographic perspective, here, although a lot of it goes over my head:
http://www.saratogaskies.com/articles/noise/index.html

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LONGER mode used a black frame process along with a unique read of data off the sensor.

Like the camera, it was a quirky delivery, of a unique imaging process. Results though, are first rate. I have found them to be better than long exposures from my D2Hs or 1DIIn.
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