Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] exposure for full moon....
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 15:51:36 -0800
References: <00a101c16299$557788a0$6b38fea9@thunderbelly>

kyle cassidy wrote:
> 
> someone said:
> 
> >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?)
> 
> get your twinky lights out if you want some foreground.
> 
> kc
> 

Easily hand hold able and most often overexposed!
That's Lunar photography for ya.


Mark Rabiner
500th at F 5.6 and be there with Neopan ACROS!

Portland, Oregon
USA

http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/
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