Better yet, send someone out there to play the racoon and have them hold an
incident flash meter. That would allow you to dial in a perfect exposure with
no film waste or experimentation.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Reese)
> This is a repeat message. The first one apparently didn't go through.
>
> I have an interesting photographic situation and I'd to get some opinions on
> the
> best way to proceed.
>
> I hang a suet feeder in a tree that's about 12' from the bathroom window. The
> feeder brings in woodpeckers and other birds that I photograph from inside
> the
> bathroom. Lately, a raccoon has been emptying the feeder every night. I want
> to
> try to get a shot of him if I can.
>
> It will be very dark and impossible to focus so I plan on pre-focusing the
> lens.
> I'd like to stop it down to about f/5.6 or f/8 to give me some room for
> error. I
> plan on using something between a 50 and 100mm focal length to include the
> context of the raccoon, the feeder and the tree. I'll obviously have to use a
> flash to get the shot.
>
> I have an AF-360 FGZ and an AF-500 FTZ that I can use with my MZ-S. I'll be
> shooting with slide film so exposure is critical. I figure I'll only get one
> shot before he hauls ringedtail for the woods.
>
> Do you think I'd have better luck using the flash on the manual setting, the
> P-TTL in the AF360 or the TTL if the AF500? I'm thinking I might need the
> power
> of the AF500. I'm also wondering about whether the P-TTL or TTL would
> overexpose
> the tree and raccoon trying to light the darkness beyond.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with night time shooting?
>
> Does anyone have any ideas or am I missing anything?
>
> thanks for your thoughts.
>
