Re: "Night Light" - How about the moon?

[Luvdove6@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 9/24/99 12:19:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
beasleyglb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> I've been told by astronmer types and other folks in the know the proper
>  exposure for the moon is f/11 @ 1/(film EI). The sunny 16 rule doesn't get
>  it so well because the moon has a low reflectance (albedo) in spite of its
>  bright appearance. In reality it is a dark colored piece of rock. Rock
>  reflects IR about the same as visible light so theres no need to make any
>  exposure corrections for IR reflectivity. You probably won't get anything
>  that looks too different from a visible light image.
>  If you want to really see if there are any differences betwwen the IR and
>  regular film response the best was to illustrate the difference is to shoot
>  one IR and one normal shot with the same lens. Scan them and if you can
>  superimpose a negative image of one onto a positive of the other. All
>  similar areas should mostly cancel out, leaving the differences behind.
>  Should be and interesting image. It'd be fun to see such a processed image
>  of more earthly items.

Thanks...that does sound like a good idea!  I use Tmax films sometimes too... 
so I'll try one with IR and one regular.... and I'll use the f11 at 1/(EI of 
film) too... thank you so much for the advice!  ;-)

~Holly~
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