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Originally posted by VaSteve
Way different than I would have thought. You know Sunny 16 for sun lit objects with 100 ISO @ 1/125. The moon is a sunlit object or so the guys NASA tell me. I'm glad I waited till the digital age to waste 16 frames experimenting. I'll try it again using your settings. Thanks.
That's right, but moon rocks are pretty dark grey. To get the moon to look the way that I think it should I use the "Moony 11" rule.

I have no idea how a modern newfangled camera does this - I'm stuck in the past.



Pentax 6x7 chewing up PanF in Death Valley last month...



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Old 12-29-2006, 11:50 AM
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