[Leica] Blood Moon Eclipse

[Mark Rabiner]

The moon itself moves to fast for a half second. Its in the Ansel Adams
Photo Series books. But the moon is typically over exposed. And was nice you
didn't do that.


On 10/9/14 9:31 PM, "Howard Ritter" <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:

> Mark—
> 
> Yep, Nikon, D800 with the Zoom-Nikkor 80-400 at 400mm. I wanted all the FL I
> could get and my longest Leica is the 180 Elmarit-R.
> 
> Tripod of course, and only the best: the latest Ferrari-logoed, epoxy-infused
> carbon-fiber Giotto, internet-enabled, GPS-located, Wifi-connected, gyro
> stabilized with 17 sapphire bearings and magnetic articulations, and
> vibrationless hydraulic leg extension/retraction. Plus ultra-resolution
> optical position encoders on all three axes and electrorheomagnetic vibration
> damping. Or wait, maybe it was my faithful companion, my old aluminum
> Manfrotto. Yeah, that’s it.
> 
> Camera was set on 2 sec but I found that at this long FL, the long shutter was
> enough that the mechanical torsions of the mirror and shutter created image
> smear. So I exposed by selecting a 2-sec shutter, holding a black card in
> front of the lens when I triggered the shutter then moving it aside for half a
> second in mid-shutter to avoid the vibrations at opening and closing. Worked
> out well but not quite perfectly. Next time will use 3 or 4 sec to ensure full
> damping before moving the card aside.
> 
> ISO was 6400. A bit of tweaking in DxO and PS made it a little prettier.
> 
> —howard
> 
> 
> On Oct 9, 2014, at 1:05 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> A perfect setup and technique! A nice 800 was it Nikon? Tripod?
>> To me its like a magic show I always just want to know how they did it !
>> Carbon fiber?!?!
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/9/14 10:40 AM, "Howard Ritter" <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks, Mark! A lucky combination of time of day and geographical location
>>> didn’t hoit!
>>> 
>>> —howard
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Oct 9, 2014, at 4:09 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Real nice ones! Super sharp! Perfectly exposed! Never seen  it this good! I
>>>> think better than my blood moon from last time.!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 10/8/14 7:21 PM, "Howard Ritter" <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I¹ve just posted a couple of more images from this morning¹s eclipse.
>>>>> These
>>>>> were made with a D800 and 400mm zoom. They show a much larger image of the
>>>>> Moon, and one with a splash of stars in the background.
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Blood+Moon/
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for looking. C&C welcome.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ‹howard
> 
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