1 hour exposure with the Canon 5d
Last year I did a post (see it here) of a 30 minute exposure with the Canon 5d. I've done a few since then, but a few nights ago I did the longest I've tried with digital, 1 hour! It actually looks pretty good. Not sure if the 100% view would pass the quality control inspection for a stock agency, what do you think?
Even if it was a perfect file though, it's not really realistic to shoot digital for exposures longer than 15 minutes, because the camera has to do something called "noise reduction" and it takes just as long as the exposure. So, for a 1 hour exposure, it took 2 hours for that shot to finish and be saved to the CF card, which ate through the battery in 1 shot. We were camping in Idaho when I took this, so I just left the camera out overnight and went to bed. :)
Labels: 1 hour exposure, 60 minute exposure, Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 fisheye lens, canon eos 5d, ISO 50, long exposure
posted by blaine at
6/25/2007 08:35:00 PM
2 Comments:
I have to say, though, that it's pretty cool that you could eat through a camera battery in one shot. That's really hardcore.
wow - great exposure. didn't turn out too bad for 1 hour!
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