Congrats on your new lens Brian. About the
overexposed moon on the prints, have you looked at the
negs to see if there is detail on the 4.5mm dia.
circle of the moon. It is very eazy to overexpose.
When the moon is in the frame I usually bracket to get
a useable neg. At any rate, enjoy. John
--- B Gray <bandvg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One consolation is that the eclipse
> photographs clearly confused
> the automatic printers in the processing lab that
> the local chemist uses -
> the photographs exposed using spot/manual with my
> OM2SP have been printed
> as a very bright moon on a pitch black background
> and I will have to see if
> a more professional lab can produce prints which
> reveal some of the surface
> detail that was clearly visible to the naked eye
> when I took the
> pictures. However, I did get a clear record of the
> eclipse with images of
> the moon which are 21mm diameter on 6inch by 4inch
> prints without any
> enlargement.
> Lots more to learn by practice and from the
> gurus on the list (I
> have already bought faster film)!
>
> Brian
>
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