My left eye hurts. A lot. WTF? When attempting to use the telescope I borrowed from my
brother as a telescope instead of as a long camera lens,
the clearest, brightest view I get is when I remove the telescope
eyepiece and hold up a 50mm camera lens to use as an eyepiece.
This is ... counterintuitive, at my present level of understnding
of telescopes.
Trying to keep both eyes open while one has such a vastly
different magnification factor than the other (as when looking
through a 700mm lens) is mildly headache-inducing. Trying to
do so when one eye sees upside down and magnified while
the other sees normally ... Ow. It feels like
somebody jabbed a stilletto into my eye socket. (Was my brain
trying to tell that eye to move in a way it couldn't do --
rotate in its socket -- or is the pain entirely neurological?)
I can't shoot helicopters today. There were two (both State
Police, I think) parked downtown, but when the image in the
viewfinder kept rippling from the air currents between here
and downtown, I gave up any hope of getting sharp enough
focus to read the tail numbers. (So now I'm trying to get
cell-phone video of the heat ripples. Just to find out
whether I can do so or not.)
Also: is it just me, or is it easier to shoot fireworks
on a film camera than on digital?