Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So sorry, but if you overexpose you don't have a chance. 16 and be there with the moon. No blown highlights Sent from my iPhone Sonny Carter http://www.SonC.com/look On Jun 22, 2013, at 9:29 PM, Larry Bullis <kingfisher at halcyon.com> wrote: > Think about the zone sys. If you use the "sunny 16" rule for the moon, it > WILL work, but the moon will be like what it's made of - moon rocks. They > are a rather uninteresting value of gray. > > The Chinese poet Li Bai is said to have drowned trying to embrace the > image of the moon reflected in water. I doubt that Li would have been > motivated to do that had the image of the moon looked sort of like the > parking lot at Safeway. > > It would probably be better to use f/11 or even closer to f/8. You have a > digital camera, so you can check it and choose the way you want it to look. > > On 6/22/13 5:39 PM, lug-request at leica-users.org wrote: >> The moon is a reflection of the sun and follows the sunny 16 rule. Use >> f/16 and the shutter speed of the ISO. It works! >> >> Tina > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information