Hi,
I too watched the lunar eclipse last night:
At f4.5, with Provia 100F and spot metering on the moon the exposure time
was about 6-7 seconds I estimate. The results will probably not be very
good due to the haze but I suppose it was better than full overcast.
Over here it was a little bit hazy, but as opposed to my disastrous trip to
Luxemburg to catch 1999's full solar eclipse, this time in my whereabouts
(as opposed to most of the rest of the country) I got a pretty clear view!
Unfortunately my 300/4.5 is in Jaap's store for repairs, and I was rather
uptied repairing Gioconda's bicycle. Nonetheless I did watch it every two
minutes or so, indeed at one point the moon showed a kind of brownish/redish
veil (I write "veil" as the haze made the redish/brownish colours look kinda
like brown smoke), then after the full eclipse I was finished repairing the
bicycle and decided to take some pictures of it after all. As the 300mm was
still in Jaap's house (as mentioned) I decided to do some TC stacking, so I
put the Oly 2xA on a Vivitar (70-150mm matched) 2xA + the 135/2.8, to obtain
an effective 540/11, I used this with Provia 100F at f8, f5.6, f4 and f16
(multiply these numbers by 4 for getting the effective diaphragm), and used
a single spot measurement on the moon (I also bracketed by -1/3, and -2/3).
Perhaps something interesting will get out of it, but I do not expect much
of it...
The North England pictures taken with the digital OM to which a URL was
provided were really nice, I didn't get a view which was quite that clear,
nonetheless the colours were similar over here and the view was not too
bad...
Cheers!
Olafo
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