Re: Re: Northern Lights

2004-11-12 Thread Jostein
- Original Message - From: "Chris Brogden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Do you ever find that the LX overexposes by trying to lighten up all > that dark sky? > That's my experience. I have used a dialled-in -1,5 stop compensation. Jostein

RE: Re: Northern Lights

2004-11-11 Thread Antti-Pekka Virjonen
Turku Finland Gsm: +358-500-789 753 www.computec.fi * www.estera.fi > -Original Message- > From: Chris Brogden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 12:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Re: Northern Lights > > Do you ever find

Re: Re: Northern Lights

2004-11-11 Thread Chris Brogden
Do you ever find that the LX overexposes by trying to lighten up all that dark sky? Chris On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:19:42 +0200, Antti-Pekka Virjonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > You're not going to get any reading with a normal > spotmeter... unless the Aurora is extremely bright > (but t

RE: Re: Northern Lights

2004-11-11 Thread Antti-Pekka Virjonen
l mesko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 9:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Re: Northern Lights > > Thanks for the tips guys! Looks like I will have to borrow a > spotmeter to get a starting point and bracket a lot from there. > > Jostein,

Re: Re: Northern Lights

2004-11-10 Thread michal mesko
Thanks for the tips guys! Looks like I will have to borrow a spotmeter to get a starting point and bracket a lot from there. Jostein, those are absolutely awesome pictures of aurora. The rest of the site is very nice, too. Especially the MF photography. Holding my breath for the next aurora,

Re: Northern Lights

2004-11-10 Thread Jostein
Michal, The aurora is very variable. I've only had two good shoots with it, and on both occations, the LX metering saved my day, or night if you like. I've got the best from both shoots on my website, and as you'll see, the exposure times varied a lot. One night, the exposures were down to 40 seco

RE: Northern Lights

2004-11-10 Thread Tom C
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Northern Lights Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:05:51 -0700 Hi Mike, I've found auroras, at least at my latitude, to be even more variable and inconsistent as to timing of appearances. Electricity, it's kin magnetism, and the solar wind appear to be very fickle lo

RE: Northern Lights

2004-11-10 Thread Ronald Arvidsson
Hi, Welcome to the tricky world of Aurora photography. I beleive you are facing several obstacles - to overcome of course. 1. Are you doing film or digital? For film there is the reciprocity factor which means that exposure must be increased at long exposre times - not so severe with some mod

RE: Northern Lights

2004-11-09 Thread Tom C
Hi Mike, I've found auroras, at least at my latitude, to be even more variable and inconsistent as to timing of appearances. Electricity, it's kin magnetism, and the solar wind appear to be very fickle lovers. However, I've found, in general, the following exposures to work: f2, ISO 400, betwee