Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Folks, > >Full moon on Halloween!? > > > >Photographers, man your Noctili! > >remember, the sun falls on the moon with the same intensity that it does on >the earth and we're metering the subject, not the black sky around it -- the >proper exposure for a full moon is something more like 500 at f 11 w/ tri-x. >(and why would anybody be shooting anything else?) Someone told me that moon shots should be done at sunny-11 (not sunny-16). So turn your Noctilux to f/11 (if it goes that far...:-)) and set the shutter speed to 1/ISO. Push the button. Bingo... I've tried f/16 and 1/ISO and it gives a lightly darker, yellowish moon (on color slides). From that f/11 and 1/ISO sounds better I've just never actually have time to try it out. Maybe tonight... :-) Tom - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html