Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard, That first one is amazing. Thanks for sharing. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 5:02 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Big thick ND filters...... > The longest exposure I have taken so far is 4 minutes at night, this is > with a 30MP medium format data back: > > http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20110410-CF006397-Edit.jpg > > > This is 2 min exposure right at sunset (posted a couple times already but > I > just printed it out over 3 feet long and it's really sweet). Frank, this > one uses the B&W 10 stopper. > > http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20121122-Scanned-20-2.jpg > > The best 10 stopper I read is the Lee, but you will need to get it at EBay > as the wait time from Lee is ~3 months+!!!! > > > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > >> There was an article on a guy who did this a year ago in one of the photo >> magazines. It captivated me. Always wanted to do this. Love time >> exposures. >> Be great to in the middle have a guy getting a shoe shine ; as a central >> theme. As a nod to the first photo ever taken with a human in it. >> >> They found out in the last couple of years that the the very first photo >> ever taken and its by Ni?pce of the rooftops out his window on a pewter >> plate did not really take all day to expose... >> Wait for it..... >> It took all week. >> >> LOVE that kinda stuff. >> Zero camera motion. >> Plenty of subject motion. >> But everything else super sharp. >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> >> >> > From: Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> >> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> > Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 08:58:08 -0800 >> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Big thick ND filters...... >> > >> > Found a reference ... where the guy said that the Heliopan had less >> > color >> > shift than "others". Will try to find the filter... B+H has them. >> > >> > Thanks Bob..... >> > >> > Frank Filippone >> > Red735i at verizon.net >> > >> > >> > I remember a thread in getdpi.com about this. Look under Medium Format >> > (Dante's Inferno) and filter for a thread about ND filters. I person on >> > there did a lot of testing. Membership is free and worthwhile. >> > Bob >> > >> > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net >> >wrote: >> > >> >> I am interested in slowing down things, a lot. I had picked out a 10 >> >> stop ND filter, then did a bit more research, where I found this >> >> tidbit...( though it is for a 6 stop reduction) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> "This B+W Neutral Density Filter reduces the light by six f-stops. >> >> With this filter and without changing the f-stop, a shutter speed of >> >> 1/60 s is changed to a full second, thus requiring the use of a >> >> tripod. Flowing water is rendered as flowing in the photo, and people >> >> moving in streets are dissolved in unsharpness or become invisible. >> >> Because of its higher transmission in the red beyond 660 nm, this >> >> filter brings a slightly warm tone to color photographs. If this >> >> effect is undesirable, a B+W UV-/IR-Blocking Filter >> >> 486 >> >> in front of the neutral density filter (not behind it) remedies that >> >> situation. The filter factor is 64x." >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Has anyone ever heard of a ND filter of this strength being a bit warm >> >> toned? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Frank Filippone >> >> >> >> Red735i at verizon.net >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >