eclipse settings

[fivegrand]

Originally Posted by dino

ill be shooting f/2.8 for about 2 seconds, gonna be taking multi shots with a tripod. what would you be using to acheive capture of the event

The moon is directly lit by sunlight, so the "Sunny 16" rule more or less applies (except that as the moon eclipses it becomes more like the "Mooney 11" rule).

In August I shot at 1/125 @ f/11 and worked my way open and slower (I have a crappy tripod but I kept the last few because of the purty color).

[rogerfsmith]

I just didn't say very well what I was trying to say. The post to which I responded said that you had to have a tracking device to shoot the Moon and I was just trying to point out that this was not true. That the Moon is daylight lit so it is quite bright and you wouldn't be doing long long time exposures. What I was trying to say about the trails was just the opposite of what my statement said. Obviously you get star trails if you don't use a tracking device and the exposure is a longer one. Of course this depends on what you are tracking and if you track a solar object long enough you will get star trails. What I was trying to write was that the use of the tracking device would only be for avoiding star trails on very long exposures. But I think most people realize that when you type a quick response it is often possible for the text you type to be totally different than what you were thinking. At least it often works that way for me.
But the major point was that tracking is not needed for shooting the Moon. A good tripod can be helpful, however.
Cheers,
Roger

[rogerfsmith]

Here is one of my shots of the eclipse. Something was strange about the moon, however:



Cheers,
Roger

[JamesB]

you sound just like my wife....say one thing but mean another

just kidding ya....

I have dont that my self a few times.....

James

Originally Posted by rogerfsmith

I just didn't say very well what I was trying to say. The post to which I responded said that you had to have a tracking device to shoot the Moon and I was just trying to point out that this was not true. That the Moon is daylight lit so it is quite bright and you wouldn't be doing long long time exposures. What I was trying to say about the trails was just the opposite of what my statement said. Obviously you get star trails if you don't use a tracking device and the exposure is a longer one. Of course this depends on what you are tracking and if you track a solar object long enough you will get star trails. What I was trying to write was that the use of the tracking device would only be for avoiding star trails on very long exposures. But I think most people realize that when you type a quick response it is often possible for the text you type to be totally different than what you were thinking. At least it often works that way for me.
But the major point was that tracking is not needed for shooting the Moon. A good tripod can be helpful, however.
Cheers,
Roger