True, Chuck. I'm sorry, posts kept coming and my interest drifted out of
this.
Besides, I didn't actually recall what did the meter said.
Fortunately I switched to View: Threaded, and found this post of yours !.
Situation was as follows: I was coming back from the park where I had
done several shots, including the 'trunk with a hole in the middle'.
Felt cold and still with a little headache, driving along an avenue I
seldom do. Saw the moon and the antennae, turned beck to see if it was
possible to photograph. Walked to find an appropriate spot, which should
be critical for this picture. While at it, a dirty inconvenience found
my right shoe. Found the place, composed, metered: at ƒ/8 found it was
possible to shoot handheld (that is, it must have read 1/250) but I
remembered my own words on the use of a tripod, and went back to the
car. Back at the spot, composed carefully: only 4 frames remained to be
shot. Reading was 1/125 then, was worth going back for the tripod.
Better, since I focused on the antennae, I could go down to ƒ/11. I seem
to remember reading was 1/60 - averaged multi spot on different parts of
the moon. I didn't want to touch the camera at this reading, so MLU and
diaphragm pre-fire. Some heavy traffic would account for vibration
issues ... yes, 1/60 IIRC - but I cleared reading and metered each one
separately - one of them should have been done with one or two readings
at the very same spot, but altogether there was little if any difference.
Not 1/30. Why did you conclude that should have been the exposure?
I was aware that reading off the moon would render a heavily saturated /
almost underexposed sky (90º degrees from the setting sun).
Wow, you bet, it has such a blue ... I think I lifted levels a bit.
BTW, I was thinking (following this experience) of buying 20 rolls of
Provia 400X - but a friend of mine is having problems with it: it turns
magenta at normal daylight conditions. Still don't know if the slide
itself, or the Canon scanner.
I'm planning to follow an old advice of C.H.: to use a higher speed
film. Found 400X, and a surprisingly unexpected magenta.
Any thoughts? Surely, my friend will ask the list on this soon.
Fernando.
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> You never did answer my question about shutter speed.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
>
>> Tripod mounted Zuiko 300mm ƒ/4,5 @ ƒ/11, Olympus OM 4 on Spot reading
>> mode (reading the Moon only), Winder 2, Eyecup 1.
>>
>> Velvia 50 - aRGB
>>
>> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/fernando_gonzalez_gentile/3702987347/>
>> --link to 1280, link to view on black.
>>
>> As always, I'll listen carefully to anything you may wish to say.
>>
>> Fernando.
>>
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