What are you doing this weekend?

[AlanS]

Alan: The Minox GT is one of my favorites. Your Ducati bike sounds cool.

You are not wrong on either count Raid. It's been a cracking day so the bike got rather more use than the camera he he! I am also lucky in that my Wife loves riding pillion, so we have some things we can do together.
The time difference is a bit tricky for online coversations eh? Should 'see you' later this evening,

 

[FrankS]

I just got back from being at a friend's cottage for the weekend. It was a boys' poker/golf/fishing weekend. Glorious! I took my M6 with 35mm Summaron, 50mm J3, and 90mm Elmar. Used the 90 for only a few shots, finished 3 rolls of HP5+ (36's) in total. Tried a few moonlight shots (almost full, clear sky) of a buddy fishing from the dock, 10sec at f3.5, with the camera supported by a deck chair arm. I should know this, but was that exposure close? Got to take a nap Sat. afternoon, we ate like kings (2 inch thick BBQ'ed sirloin's), and I'm a few dollars richer! Fantastic time. Back to reality!

 

[FrankS]

Just checked the Fred Parker site (http://www.fredparker.com/ultexp1.htm) and full moonlight exposure away from city, is EV -3 which, for 400 iso film is f4 @ 30sec. I underexposed a stop or 2. Please remember that this was at 1am at a boy's cottage weekend. My thinking may have been somewhat impaired.

 

[raid]

Not bad, Frank. There used to be a useful rule for shooting the moon. In your case, you were shooting something at moonlight.

I shot one roll of ASA 400 B&W film of Dana with the M3 and Nikkor 85mm/2.
I also got one shot with a newly acquired Zorki 4k (with Zeiss Jena 5cm lens).


Raid

 

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Watching the US Open, Andy Roddick vs. Roger Federer