Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At Wednesday 19/01/2000 20:30, Ted Grant wrote: >Paul Chefurka wrote: > > >Ted, you'll probably know the answer to this. If I wanted to shoot the > >eclipse using twinky flash, what sort of guide number would I need to expose > >the moon properly on Velvia??? ;-) >>>>>>> > >Paul, > >Maybe one of those super fantastic million gazillion watt second laser >twinkys!:) >ted Reminds me of a competition in Amateur Photographer, sometime in the 60s when to most occasional snappers "flash" was a Philips PF-1 flashbulb. The competition question was something like: "how many flashbulbs would be needed to take a flash picture of the moon". One appropriate (but unexpected) answer was: "one, if it's big enough". Taught me to phrase questions *very* carefully... Regards John Bean