Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/16

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Subject: [Leica] ULTRA long exposures - months to years!
From: faneuil at gmail.com (Eric Korenman)
Date: Sun Apr 16 08:54:07 2006
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Can't remember his name. Wish I could provide a link to images.
I thought about stacking filters and a pinhole too, but how to even begin to
roughly calculate the exposure time?! Any gear heads out there to run the
math?

Darkest filter I've got is a 10 stop filter.

Eric


On 4/16/06, Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Eric,
> So, where do I see the images?  At the last LUGfest in NYC now more than a
> few years ago I saw the camera that he was using at MOMA and always wanted
> to see the results.
>
> My guess would be a large format film with a very dark ND filter and a
> near
> pinhole aperture.  I think that you could stack several ND filters as the
> effect would be a geometric series.  F256 on a 50 ISO film with a sixty
> stop
> effective filter would get you into a pretty long exposure.  Figure out an
> extreme compensating developer and Pat's the bunny.
>
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
>
>
> On 4/16/06, Eric Korenman <faneuil@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There is a photographer out there who works in u-l-t-r-a long exposures.
> I
> > mean on the order of months to years.
> > He documented the building of the new MOMA in NYC.
> > They are quite amazing images.
> >
> > In short - HOW do you do that?
> > IE How do I do that??
> >
> > Eric
> >
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