It's been over 10 years since I was at either the B&O Museum or the
Pennsylvania State Railroad museum, and I can't reliably recall differences in
lighting between the two, but from a number of failed photo attempts at the PA
museum, I found that a flash just ruins the shot. My only success was to use
400 asa film, and set my OM1 on 1 second exposure, wide open, with tripod.
Today, I'd use an OM2 or 4, and let the automatic meter do its thing. Time
exposures work just great in Railroad museums- your tripod will move faster
than any of those locomotives. The only possible use for a flash in this case
is to walk around with it and use it to light up any shadows inside cabs, or
along the undercarriage.
Steve Goss, Dallas TX usa
Somebody (having trouble telling who with all the quoting going on...) wrote:
> bright and sunny day. The other time was just this past weekend at the B&O
> Railroad museum, inside the Roundhouse. I had the film set to 800, expsoure
> compensation to -1 for those very black steam engines, and a T-20. I never
> once got a proper exposure. The red LED never flickered. It *does* work,
> since I've seen it flicker before. The T-20 always did a full dump with the
> 24/2.8 set to f2.8. Either I need a T-32, or a 24/2.0, or both....It was a
> bright and sunny day this time also. Weird. My eyes must be really good at
> compensating for low light levels, since it seemed plenty bright to me. Oh
> well....
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