Well the moon was clear last night, hoping it will be in the same position tonight for my moon shot. It's in this thread cos I've had all failures before and must be mad to try and equal the shots on the net.
Trusty T70 (can't be bothered to change the film over to the T90) and 300mm lens with 2Xs converter and 100 iso gold.
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If you don't have the remote release use the self timer to reduce camera shake, sadly this wonderful machine does not have mirror lock up. Also remember unless you set it to manual exposure the exposure is measured as centerweighted AE when you start the timer, that has caught me out when standing in front of camera to start it - it does mention it in the manual but who reads those :banghead:
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You should be able to use Sunny 16 on the moon. It's being lit by the sun with no atmosphere or clouds.
You should be able to use Sunny 16 on the moon. It's being lit by the sun with no atmosphere or clouds.
H'mm Asha said that as well,
Anyway I missed the best time for a shot as I fell asleep....... @
:banghead:@ 10:30 it was low in the sky, fell asleep woke up at 4 am and it was low in the sky again, so a nutter with a camera, in a dressing gown, in the front garden..... taking photos @ 4 am.
How can it not be right Bri?
The moon is white (ish).
The sun reflects its luminosity off of it.
OK so there is distance to consider where some luminosity maybe lost but Sunny or shoulfd that be moony lol F/16 or F/11 rule should be somewhere close to correct exposure
you're photographing an object lit by the sun
I seem to vaguely remember when I took a photo of the moon when I was about 16, using a Canon A1, a manual aperture Soligor 400mm lens and a 3x converter, which gave me a 1200mm lens. I seem to recall using the camera's meter as a guide, and bracketing the exposure over about 5 shots, I may have used stopped down AE for one of the shots too. This was on E6 slide film and the rather rickety tripod I was using didn't help matters (I couldn't afford proper one at the time), but one of the shots wasn't too bad (but nothing like as good as some of the digital images of the moon we see these days), I'll try and find it and post it one of these days. Anyway, best of luck Brian.
I'll keep posting my failures now and again to encourage others to say "WTF I can do better than that" and encourage others to post their moon shots from film But apparently taking shots from your garden near London with a Canon T70 / T90 ain't the best way to get a decent result.
C'mon now Asha, that was really cruel when you know the story about Brian's F4.Yes, we're already aware of that Bri, T'is why we shoot Nikon!
C'mon now Asha, that was really cruel when you know the story about Brian's F4.
Oh Lawd don't get Bri restarted on that route again…....It took 6 months for the topic to die down last time!:banghead:C'mon now Asha, that was really cruel when you know the story about Brian's F4.
Oh Lawd don't get Bri restarted on that route again…....It took 6 months for the topic to die down last time!:banghead:
I think there's more chance of you seeing feathers on a frog!if I ever get the F4 working.
There's hope yet then!Snip:
I think there's more chance of you seeing feathers on a frog!
@BADGER.BRAD
Did I just see you on the telly? There was an item on BBC Breakfast about the Whitby Goth Weekend and I'm sure you and Mrs Badger were in the set up shot.
... having met Dean at Arundel, I do wonder what on earth has become of him …
Hi all! Long story short, personal issues but I'm still kicking! I've finally settled on a camera to keep, however, so I've returned to the forum in order to sell everything before I run away and hide (again).
Hope everyone's well, lots to catch up on so I'll probably skip to the end of a few threads and post a "nice shot" or two to get my post count moving again.
Cheers!
Yippee, Strappy Dean is back with us
Oh, bloody hell!
Well, that's easy for you to say!"Sanguinary Hades" if you don't mind.
The moons not white, it's apparently brown, about 8 to 10% reflectance according to NASAWell just first thoughts and I can be persuaded with logic:- how can the reflection from the moon (from the sun) be the same as full sun during the day for sunny 16....if it was the same when the moon was out it would be like daylight. As sunny 16 rule changes for different daylight condition e.g. for overcast sky could be say sunny f5.6 then you would have to work out sunny 16 rules for the moon starting with clear night and moon overhead would be sunny F?
The moons not white, it's apparently brown, about 8 to 10% reflectance according to NASA
That would suggest ( I think) somewhere in the region of sunny (or should that be moony lol) F4
......a chance for all the guys who have bought expensive digi spotmeters to take a reading of the moon to get a rough looney "F No".......is a digi spotmeter any good for the moon compared to say a Canon T90 with 300mm (plus) lens taking a spot reading?
h'mm how you can use sunny whatever for a moon shot at the top of a mountain to a murky city and at different positions in the sky beats me
I'm not sure I follow you. "Sunny 16" doesn't state that you always use 1/ISO at f/16 in daylight, so some judgement is required. But more importantly, I'm not sure whether you're referring to the exposure required to photograph the moon, or the exposure required to photograph by moonlight.
I've only achieved anything acceptable in the way of moon images on cloudless days. Even then they haven't been that good. On the other hand, I'm not an astronomer. Taken with a Sony HX90 pocket camera...
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