quick D70 exposure question

[white_van_man]

How do i do long ie 5-10 min exposures on a D70 i would look in my manual but i cant find it at the moment

[beano500]

Er - not gone there myself yet, but do you set it to "bulb" and use the remote plip thingy? One plip for open sesame and again for close sesame?

[beano500]

BTW 5-10 minutes isn't really a "quick" exposure! Well, not unless your name's Fox Talbot or Daguerre

[fergusd]

You'll need to use a remote control, the cam will do up to 30 seconds exposures itself, but for longer than 30 secs you need to use a wee IR remote thingy, press once to open the shutter, once to close . . .

Fd

[blondemoment]

white_van_man said:

How do i do long ie 5-10 min exposures on a D70 i would look in my manual but i cant find it at the moment

I'm glad you asked! I've been wondering that too!!!

[fazz81]

I think you can set it to bulb and press the shutter release button to open the again to close.

But the remote control is better as it elemenates shake.

[fatrabbit]

Yeah - buy the remote, set your camera to operate with it (easy, it's in the manual) and click.

Annoyingly, the camera sets itself back to using the normal shutter release button after a few minutes, so look in the manual on how to adjust how long it waits before doing this.

You can see some photos of mine with this method here : www.werebunny.com/gfx .

[fazz81]

that was annoying me as well, didn't realise you could change it to wait longer.

Cheers

[beano500]

Well you're all right (me too)

See manual on pages: 83 and 107

You get 30 minutes max using the remote plip (or as long as your finger can stand it if you hold the release down! )

Course the workaround is that if the battery fails the shutter will stay open






Oh and RTFM!

[beano500]

fatrabbit said:

You can see some photos of mine with this method here : www.werebunny.com/gfx .

Hey Fatrabbit!!!

start a new thread so that your images can be sure to get to a wider PH Photodude audience - they're really inspiring!!!!

[fazz81]

beano500 said:

Oh and RTFM!

you'll want us to be asking directions next!

>> Edited by fazz81 on Friday 13th May 12:41

[_dobbo_]

beano500 said:

fatrabbit said: You can see some photos of mine with this method here : <a href="www.werebunny.com/gfx">www.werebunny.com/gfx</a> . Hey Fatrabbit!!! start a new thread so that your images can be sure to get to a wider PH Photodude audience - they're really inspiring!!!!

Indeed fatrabbit post a thread of your own, and also get yourself entered in the competetion thread, surely this one fits "industrial" and plus it's farking amazing!!!! How was it done?

[CVP]

_dobbo_ said:

Indeed fatrabbit post a thread of your own, and also get yourself entered in the competetion thread, surely this one fits "industrial" and plus it's farking amazing!!!! How was it done?

Great image, most creative use of lighting and subject.

I think it's done as follows;

1. Camera on tripod with long exposure of scene
2. Put red gel over torch
3. Walk round the scene moving the torch in the pattern you want to see in the finished image

As you are constantly moving and only in the same place in the image for such a short period you don't record, but as the torch is so bright compared to the ambient light it does leave it's trail.

Correct ??

Chris