With long night exposures and subjects in the photo like trees and mountains, I assume any leaf movement at all due to wind or even the lightest breeze would cause a slight appearance of blurring over the whole tree (or even a tree-covered mountain).

Joe

Jostein, I've noticed this same lack of sharpness in my own nighttime images
where the exposure lasts several hours. Trees, hills and mountains have a
very soft look to them. Photos of the same scene in the morning with the
same lens, film and camera are nice and sharp. I have two theories as to why
this is in my case:

1) How the lens is focused at night: it's just racked out to infinity, since
I can't see anything through the viewfinder.

2) Color negative film (and maybe any film) loses acutance at longer
exposures.

t

On 11/18/02 11:16 AM, Jostein wrote:

 There is one thing that strikes me about the focus in these shots.
 Presumably in focus, they seem blurred. It's especially evident in
 Chet's photo when compared to the same scene by daylight.

 I don't doubt the eyesight of you guys, and I don't suspect you to
 have flimsy tripods either. so I suppose there must be something
 technical...

 Is it just a scanning matter, a matter of large apertures, or is it
 something more peculiar?

 The first thing I thought of apart from scanning, was that resiprocity
 failure had something to do with contrast rendering, but it shouldn't
 be that serious, even at 1.5 minutes exposure.

 Any suggestions? (Including me imagining things?)

 Jostein


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