Nice shot just the way it is, Larry. Monitors can display quite a wide variation at this level of exposure.
Jack --- On Sat, 11/20/10, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> > Subject: The right tool for the job > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, November 20, 2010, 5:55 AM > I was driving home from dancing in > SF, and seeing the mist and clouds lit by the moon over some > water I was compelled to stop and take a few pictures. > At one point when I was bracketing two cameras (K20 and Kx) > two lenses (16-50 & 20/1.8), several isos and exposures, > my first thought was that if I had a K-5 this would be so > much easier because I'd at least know which camera body to > use. Then I realized that for this shot I didn't need > a K-5, I needed a 645D. Then I realized what I really needed > was Ralf's nightscape skills. > > Where my thoughts ended up, while waiting for the 30 second > exposures, plus the 30 second dark fields, is that what I'd > really like to see is what Ralf could do at night with a > 645D, and that if Pentax were smart, they'd loan Ralf a 645D > for a few weeks, just to see what one could do for night > time landscapes. > > I need to go to bed rather than going through all of my > n-dimensional bracketing from three different shooting > locations, but after a quick scan, this seems to be one of > the more promising shots: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/5191532097/ > > K20, ISO 400, 16-50 at 16mm f/2.8 30 second exposure. > Which matches my previous experience that the sweet spot at > night is a 30 second exposure with the K20 at ISO 400. > > For the Bay Area Folks, this is shot from the frontage > road, just north of Black Road (Bear Creek exit off Hwy > 17). > > If there's interest, I could post my full bracketing of one > of the shots. The last one I took ran into problems > because the lens started fogging up. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
