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Subject: [Leica] ULTRA long exposures - months to years!
From: imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George)
Date: Tue Apr 18 08:04:14 2006
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Reciprocity at extremely long exposures would have to come into play  
- don't you think?

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george@imagist.com



On Apr 16, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Don Dory wrote:

> Eric,
> Exposure would be the easy part.  Just for example you get a base  
> reading of
> 1 sec at the given aperture.  A ten stop filter would get you to 16
> minutes.  Stack another ten stop filter and you get about 33  
> hours.  At this
> point minor timing changes will not have a serious effect as you  
> would have
> to double or quadruple the exposure due to reciprocity failure.
>
> So, I would start with a slow film, a small aperture, and your 10 stop
> filter and bracket at 10, 20, 40, and 80 minutes.  Bring a good  
> book or
> another camera and enjoy the time.
>
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
>
>
> On 4/16/06, Eric Korenman <faneuil@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can't remember his name. Wish I could provide a link to images.
>> I thought about stacking filters and a pinhole too, but how to  
>> even begin
>> to
>> roughly calculate the exposure time?! Any gear heads out there to  
>> run the
>> math?
>>
>> Darkest filter I've got is a 10 stop filter.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>> On 4/16/06, Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Eric,
>>> So, where do I see the images?  At the last LUGfest in NYC now  
>>> more than
>> a
>>> few years ago I saw the camera that he was using at MOMA and always
>> wanted
>>> to see the results.
>>>
>>> My guess would be a large format film with a very dark ND filter  
>>> and a
>>> near
>>> pinhole aperture.  I think that you could stack several ND  
>>> filters as
>> the
>>> effect would be a geometric series.  F256 on a 50 ISO film with a  
>>> sixty
>>> stop
>>> effective filter would get you into a pretty long exposure.   
>>> Figure out
>> an
>>> extreme compensating developer and Pat's the bunny.
>>>
>>> Don
>>> don.dory@gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/16/06, Eric Korenman <faneuil@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There is a photographer out there who works in u-l-t-r-a long
>> exposures.
>>> I
>>>> mean on the order of months to years.
>>>> He documented the building of the new MOMA in NYC.
>>>> They are quite amazing images.
>>>>
>>>> In short - HOW do you do that?
>>>> IE How do I do that??
>>>>
>>>> Eric
>>>>
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