Show Me Your Night Shots!

[StoneNYC]

Good luck!. And let us see the result. I've never tried star trails myself, as I live in places without clear skies, but I meet thinking about shooting the moon. Unfortunately, I don't have any really long lenses, and when I look at what I get on the ground glass with a 210, it aint very big.

Yea you need 600mm to even make a decent 5x7 enlargement from 35mm of the moon, someway I'll be able to borrow someone's 720-1200 lens and actually shoot a LF moon.

Here's the moon I shot with 300mm. I was going to do a double exposure but then I forgot and developed it before the second exposure. Whoops!



But this gives you an idea of what a measly 300mm would look like within the full frame...

[Corran]

That reminds me of this image I took a long time ago:



IIRC, I took the first image of the building across the river with a 150mm lens. Then I double-exposed the moon with my Nikkor-T 720mm f/16. It was the first time ever using that lens, and the last for a long time because only my huge Toyo GII monorail could actually focus it, and just barely to infinity, until I got an ext. panel for my Chamonix. Anyway, the film was Fuji 160S, and I largely guessed the exposure (I don't remember either one). The building is the conference center in Savannah, GA.

[StoneNYC]

That reminds me of this image I took a long time ago:



IIRC, I took the first image of the building across the river with a 150mm lens. Then I double-exposed the moon with my Nikkor-T 720mm f/16. It was the first time ever using that lens, and the last for a long time because only my huge Toyo GII monorail could actually focus it, and just barely to infinity, until I got an ext. panel for my Chamonix. Anyway, the film was Fuji 160S, and I largely guessed the exposure (I don't remember either one). The building is the conference center in Savannah, GA.

Yup! That's what I was going for...

Sigh... If I only had a 720mm lens... My Chamonix can accommodate up to 800mm non-telephoto so even a 900 T would probably work, but getting my hands on one CHEAP would be an issue.

[Corran]

You would be jealous if I told you what I got the whole 360-500-720 set for

[Jmarmck]

Exposures of the moon should be start somewhere in the vicinity of daylight perhaps a tad less. That is, if you want detail like Bryan's. Stone, yours appears to have a nice exposure combo despite the magnification. I would like to try a 360 on the Zone VI.

[StoneNYC]

Exposures of the moon should be start somewhere in the vicinity of daylight perhaps a tad less. That is, if you want detail like Bryan's. Stone, yours appears to have a nice exposure combo despite the magnification. I would like to try a 360 on the Zone VI.

Thanks unfortunately I've lost my notes on that one with an accidental deletion of a file.

But I think it was f/11@1/125th it was delta100 so souped in Rodinal and rotary processed. That's about all I can say.

Good luck with future moon shots! I probably won't try again but you never know.

[Jmarmck]

Gotta find a 360 first
Still have not found a 75. I did find a 65 but it is attached to a camera.

[StoneNYC]

You would be jealous if I told you what I got the whole 360-500-720 set for

Ugh probably... Let me know if you find another set at free prices LOL

[brightmatter]

Just gonna give this thread the bump of life...

[Corran]

Everyone and their mom takes this photo but I hadn't so I went ahead and did it anyway!

This fair/carnival comes to town once or twice a year. The old rides squeak and rattle - I'd never get on one myself! I took this with my Master Technika and 75mm Zeiss Biogon, on Velvia 50: