P3D Re: Shooting Rhinos in the Dark

[Bruce Springsteen <bsspringsteen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Digesting all this great museum shooting advice - on and off list - and
have a working plan for speed, agility, low cost, and best odds of
acceptable-to-good outcome:

100 ISO Sensia in the SLR, 80A filter, slide bar on tripod, cable release,
no flash, using exposures the camera picks - sometimes doubling them for
experiment, stop down to maybe f8 or f16 (?) in aperture priority mode and
focus 1/3 to mid-scene.  Keep zoom in range from maybe 40-75 mm.  On small
dioramas, vary the base from normal to slightly hypo.  5P camera as a
sidearm loaded with high speed tungsten, for experimental shots.  Make
prints later from slides as needed.  Have I got it? :-)

Bruce

(Aside to John T's query - Don't know when I'll get back to Milwaukee
after the move, but will for sure.  It's a town with good stereo
credentials - Home of the Realist.  I noticed the Stereo Realist Manual
has a shot of Milwaukee Museum employees examining specimen views in a Red
Button!  I wonder if the museum has its own stereographs of their exhibits
somewhere!)

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