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Subject: [Leica] Longest known time exposure!
From: cartersxrd at gmail.com (CartersXRd)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 19:11:06 -0500
References: <07233110-CB98-4F10-8313-49253CE8C6E0@bex.net> <53907c66-3668-6618-322e-acfab9b3f951@iol.ie> <DB820C73-E202-4896-8F11-73BA717F3DC2@bex.net>

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

ric



> On Dec 18, 2020, at 5:26 PM, Howard Ritter via LUG <lug at 
> leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> The exposure was on photo paper, so ISO maybe 0.1? The diameter of a beer 
> can is, say, 65 mm. The pinhole, I?m guessing, was ~0.1mm so, f/650 @ ISO 
> 0.1. Rule of thumb is daylit scenes take 1/ISO @ f/16. That would be 10s @ 
> f/16. 650/16 = ~40 and 40^2 = 1600. So daylight exposure would be 10s x 
> 1600, or about 5 hours. 
> 
> Then you gotta figure how many equivalent hours of full sunlight there are 
> in an average Hertfordshire day over the course of a year, figuring in 
> clouds, low sun angles, etc. Three, maybe? So 8000-9000 h of exposure. 
> Just a trifle overexposed.
> 
> Of course, even the direct imaging of the Sun on the paper didn?t blast it 
> out, so maybe the pinhole was more like 0.01 mm, making the proper 
> exposure 500h. And then there?s monumental reciprocity failure?
> 
> 
> ?howard
> 
>> On Dec18, 2020, at 1653, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
>> 
>> Incredible. We know the shutter speed, and should be told the film type 
>> and aperture...
>> 
>> Douglas
>> 
>> On 18/12/2020 14:19, Howard Ritter via LUG wrote:
>>> Some seek world records. Others have world records thrust upon them?
>>> 
>>> https://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/media-centre/news/2020/longest-known-exposure-photograph-ever-captured-using-a-beer-can
>>>  
>>> <https://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/media-centre/news/2020/longest-known-exposure-photograph-ever-captured-using-a-beer-can>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ?howard
>>> 
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