Northern Lights

[F70100]

I'm really in two minds whether these are good enough to post as they're not the best quality images (really quite noisy as it needed 15 secs @f2.8 and iso 800 to get a useable exposure) but hope you like them anyway.

Taken with a G10 sitting on a mini tripod from the flightdeck whilst en-route to Trondheim, Norway. It was a magical display !

[DeeGee]

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You're very lucky to have seen them. They were visible from the north of england not long ago. Typical me missed it.

[colin C]

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Much better Northern Lights pictures than I have got.

Colin

[kiwigav]

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agree with Colin, far better than anything I've got!

[MX5]

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My two trips towards the artic [EFRO (Rovaniemi) and ENTO (Sandefjord)] and there wasn't a northern light to be seen. I have seen a 'poor' display from Scotland.

We are overdue a sunspot outbreak ... that with solar flares etc should mean we are in for a treat from north of 53°N

[tigerburnie]

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Good pictures,we were clouded over the other week so missed them,can share your settings to give me a starting point to work from?

[Nancy]

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Here in Italy we can just dream shows like these... so for me it's always exciting to admire these shots of the northern lights. The moment you've captured is splendid as the colors and the shooting point makes even more beautiful these photos!!

[F70100]

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Good pictures,we were clouded over the other week so missed them,can share your settings to give me a starting point to work from?

Settings were driven by direct feedback from the LCD. In the G10, the maximum shutter(exposure time) speed is 15secs and the lens was wide open at f2.8. I had to keep increasing the ISO to get useable images.

(Thinking about it now - would 15 secs, f2.8, ISO200 and +2 exposure compensation have been any different ?)

[F70100]

Re: Northern Lights

Good pictures,we were clouded over the other week so missed them,can share your settings to give me a starting point to work from?

Settings were driven by direct feedback from the LCD. In the G10, the maximum shutter speed (exposure time) is 15secs and the lens was wide open at f2.8. I had to keep increasing the ISO to get useable images.

(Thinking about it now - would 15 secs, f2.8, ISO200 and +2 exposure compensation have been any different ?)

[F70100]

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Sorry - didn't mean to repeat myself myself. Can the mods delete post #8?

[Foggy]

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Is it better to use the base ISO , longer exposure for less noise ?