I've not done much with night landscape specifically in recent years, but I think 100-400 speed film at max would do you best. Note that film has reciprocity to factor in, digital does not, so what by meter and calculation might be 120 seconds in digital exposure might become 3-4x times that in film.
There's a night photography Meetup group that's based locally. Several friends are in it so you might check that out. I know many of the night folks stick with film... It's at least a well known quantity compared to image stacking, etc. On Monday, October 11, 2010, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been kicking around the idea of using film for night landscape work. > Not only do you not have trouble with sensor noise on long exposures, but my > 20/1.8 works out to what would be a 13mm on APS, and would therefore be my > widest FOV. > > What film do people recommend for doing night landscape work? > > Alternatively, is there a good/easy/cheap way to stack a bunch of (for > example 10 second) exposures to get a much longer exposure with less noise > and short star trails? It would be preferable for me to do this in > lightroom, but I also have photoshop. > > In a related note, on Saturday night, driving down the coast, I noticed that > it was a beautiful, clear, moonless night so I took a set of test exposures > with the Rollei (0.5, 1, 2 and 4 minutes). When I took them in to get > processed and scanned, I was told that Bay would scan at 16 bits on request. > > It'll be interesting to compare them with the test exposures I took with the > K20. > > lrc > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
