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Subject: [Leica] Longest known time exposure!
From: hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 17:26:29 -0500
References: <07233110-CB98-4F10-8313-49253CE8C6E0@bex.net> <53907c66-3668-6618-322e-acfab9b3f951@iol.ie>

The exposure was on photo paper, so ISO maybe 0.1? The diameter of a beer 
can is, say, 65 mm. The pinhole, I?m guessing, was ~0.1mm so, f/650 @ ISO 
0.1. Rule of thumb is daylit scenes take 1/ISO @ f/16. That would be 10s @ 
f/16. 650/16 = ~40 and 40^2 = 1600. So daylight exposure would be 10s x 
1600, or about 5 hours. 

Then you gotta figure how many equivalent hours of full sunlight there are 
in an average Hertfordshire day over the course of a year, figuring in 
clouds, low sun angles, etc. Three, maybe? So 8000-9000 h of exposure. Just 
a trifle overexposed.

Of course, even the direct imaging of the Sun on the paper didn?t blast it 
out, so maybe the pinhole was more like 0.01 mm, making the proper exposure 
500h. And then there?s monumental reciprocity failure?


?howard

> On Dec18, 2020, at 1653, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> 
> Incredible. We know the shutter speed, and should be told the film type 
> and aperture...
> 
> Douglas
> 
> On 18/12/2020 14:19, Howard Ritter via LUG wrote:
>> Some seek world records. Others have world records thrust upon them?
>> 
>> https://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/media-centre/news/2020/longest-known-exposure-photograph-ever-captured-using-a-beer-can
>>  
>> <https://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/media-centre/news/2020/longest-known-exposure-photograph-ever-captured-using-a-beer-can>
>> 
>> 
>> ?howard
>> 
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