Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 20:54 1997-04-06 EDT, you wrote: >Dick Hemingway wrote: > ><<How big a flash do you need to illuminate the comet???>>>>>> > >Hi Dick, >I sure can't be given credit for the "flash line" you have tagged me with!:) >However I have to tell you the night I shot mine there were folks with happy >snap family cameras who were shooting and the flash would go off! :) > >I just smiled. Hey, Ted, that is great, just like you see in the football and baseball stadiums. Actually I can't take credit for the flash line. When I read your post I remembered years ago that someone actually wrote into a photo mag asking how big a flash they needed to photograph the moon, and they were serious!! [snip] I took several shot with the 35 and 75, and varied the exposures at 20-60 seconds, on Kodak Royal 400. The 75 came out the best - I would think that 90 would be great. >Using the R8 I just tripped the shutter and the camera set the exposure >correctly and I couldn't believe it turned out as well as it did. I also shot >the moon eclipse the same evening and the same way, but I spot metered with the >800mm right on the moon and the frames are right on the mark for exposure with >detail in the moon surface. I missed the eclipse, the 800 should have been a good lens for it. >But hey it would be something else smoking right along >at tree top level, just think of the great images with a 15mm lens, as I was >told it is 12 times bigger than earth. Too bad you wouldn't get to develop them!! >And then maybe the flash would work! :) Sounds good to me - but, probably, you could take it at f/16 on K25 at 1/4000 without flash!! BTW I decided to take some pictures of the comet with the 135/4.0M lens. Problem was that the camera then was loaded with K64. At 75/1.4, on 400, the best exposure was about 30 sec. This works out to about 16 min on K64 at f/4.0. I let it go 10 minutes and know I will have some movement. I also shot it at 74/1.4 at 4 min. Won't use up the film for a while so won't know how they came out. Dick Hemingway Norman, OK