shooting with autom. B
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comradejones
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shooting with autom. B
Hi, just looking for some general advice here! I'm looking to shoot a piece with my Nizo 561 super 8 on a series of murals in my area. I'll be shooting at night so I want to frame up the murals, which are all on busy streets, lock off the camera and shoot using time lapse set to the autom. B setting so as the have the mural in focus with the traffic just streaks of light. I haven't used this camera or experimented with autom. B before. Anything I should know? Like, will I need an external light meter? I can't really afford to blow to much stock experimenting! Any thoughts greatly appreciated!
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Mitch Perkins
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Re: shooting with autom. B
Be sure to pull back the lever on the side of cam, locking open shutter, or it will all be in vain.comradejones wrote:Hi, just looking for some general advice here! I'm looking to shoot a piece with my Nizo 561 super 8 on a series of murals in my area. I'll be shooting at night so I want to frame up the murals, which are all on busy streets, lock off the camera and shoot using time lapse set to the autom. B setting so as the have the mural in focus with the traffic just streaks of light. I haven't used this camera or experimented with autom. B before. Anything I should know? Like, will I need an external light meter? I can't really afford to blow to much stock experimenting! Any thoughts greatly appreciated!
autom. B setting specifically eliminates the need for external light meter.
Enjoy!
Mitch
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Welcs!comradejones wrote:thanks mitch!
Thought I'd just add for general consumption -
If using autoB function, chances are you're in the dark, literally, and the fstop will be wide open. Now, Nizos are not the sharpest tacks, unfortunately, since they have so many cool features. So, if you can get a stopwatch, and time the exposure time it automatically assigns, you can double the exposure time with the intervalometer (shutter locked open, naturally), and close the iris down one stop - a little sharper. Quadruple exposure time, close down iris two stops, etc. Note this will exaggerate the streaky TE effect, so it all depends what you're going for...
If it's so dark that the max exp time is auto-assigned, there's nothing more you can do. Except look forward to the beautiful footage.
Mitch