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Help with some night shots?

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I need a little help with operating my camera at night. I have a Minolta SRT-201 and I would like to get some nice shots of the moon and clouds around it. Problem is I don't know how much to open the aperture on any of my lenses. The lowest the aperture goes on any of my lenses starts at f/1.4 and goes up to f/22. I have the manuals for all of my equipment but i have yet to find the answer. if you need anymore information, please let me know.

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If you shoot the moon at any setting other than 1/ISO @ f/16, all the detail will be lost (over exposure).  To get good shots of the clouds, you may have to use a larger f/stop ... f/8 or so, but you will lose some of the detail in the moon.

The thing that is going to hold you back the most is the short lens you are using ... the 50 mm or 55 mm lens.  Even with a 500 mm, the moon is still not going to fill the frame ... not that it is exactly what you want, but with a "normal" lens the moon will be very small in the frame.

Since you are using 800 ISO film, you may want to set your camera at 1/500th second and then bracket with all your available f/stops, have the roll developed and then you can pick the best exposure from it.  Write it down and refer to that when you shoot next time.
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iso and shutter speed are more important to me than apature.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/giltwerks/2...

the exif is in properties on the right. and it's someplace to start remember the moon is a sunlit scene

i would set my iso at 100 and start with 1 sec shutter speed and increase incrementally for several frames...use a sturdy tripod.
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he got it ^

plz plz plz plz help me

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an aperature of 1.4 will give you the most light. every time you change the aperature one stop you double the light so from 22 to 16 is double the light. 22 to 11 would be 4 times the light and so on. You have to balance the aperature with the appropriate shutter speed. Your meter will help you with that. Still at night you may need a slow shutter speed and tripod
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