Slight topic drift, but.... reminds me of the old 'stumpter' question.
What is the correct exposure for photographing the moon.
About the same as photographing a medium grey (lighter than an 18 ard) on
the surface of the earth in broad daylight.
George
>
>This reminds me of the time I was walking towards the Glacier Point
overlook to
>Yosemite Valley on a full moon nite. I had my tripod over my shoulder and
my 4T
>and a couple of fast lenses in a bag. On the way out, I met a man coming
back
>from the point. He too had a tripod on his shoulder, but on the end of
his was a
>Nikon, either an F3 or an F4, can't recall. He expressed surprise that I was
>going to try to take some pictures. "There's not enough light", he says.
It was
>a bright full moon in a cloudless sky. "Why do you say that", I asked.
"Well,
>my camera says so", was his answer. I went on that nite, despite the
conclusions
>of his Nikon, to take some great, perfectly exposed auto exposures with
the 4T.
>
>george
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