Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm disappointed that you didn't remember that the luminance of the full moon at f2 would require an exposure of . . . oh how did Ansel put it? <grin> Thanks for sharing, Ted. That's a very useful feature. Hope life is well! Adam On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: > SIX MOONS OF EARTH! > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/leicated/ted+grant/ > > How it was shot! :-) > > Absolutely true, it is not a fiddled PhotoShop image. > > This is in camera. Leica SL2 created multi image at 40,000 feet on a return > flight south from the High Arctic on a very clear full moon night. > > Me, "WOW! Look at the moon I wonder if I can shoot it and make something > out > of it?" > > Then I remembered there was a little lever on the SL2 by the re-wind lever > you could move that & lock the film in place, but you could re-cock the > shutter without the film moving. As many times as you wished. > > I pulled the camera out of the bag with the, I think the 50 f 1.4 Summilux > or the 80mm 1.4 Summilux. It really doesn't matter because whatever it was > it worked. > > I looked through the viewfinder placing the moon on one side of the > viewfinder with the idea of making an exposure, re-cock shutter, re-align > moon by eye, make next exposure. Doing that for what was, on this frame 7 > moons. The seventh I cropped as it was way off to the right hand side and > useless. > > Now keep in mind this is 'FILM!" :-) So each positioning of the moon was > a > Hail Mary guess without a digital screen to look at for composing. > Meanwhile > the plane is merrily flying along southward. > > The meter readings? Whatever the camera figured out and I went click! > > It was all by guess and by God. If it worked it would be cool. If it > didn't? > You never told anybody about it and threw the screwed-up slides away! > > See how simple it can be without all the techie stuff! :-) But damn I bet > we > had far more fun without thought because we loved what we were doing and > tried stuff just to see what it looked like without thinking whether it > worked or not. :-) > > So there you are as KISS simple as it can be. Trust the camera and yourself > and "click!" > > ted > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >