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July 31st, 2012, 09:15 AM
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GH2 and long night/star exposures
Can anybody advise me how I can shoot still nightime shots with the GH2 and the 14-140 lens in M mode? Whenever I try the manual exposure assist makes up for the low exposure, despite that I have set the shutter to say 10seconds,ISO 100/200, and apaerture to f7, the photo always comes out extremely overexposed. Please advise me what to do? thanks
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July 31st, 2012, 09:26 AM
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Re: GH2 and long night/star exposures
Start by reducing your shutter speed, getting the right shot under such conditions is down to trial and error, simply try different settings until you have the shot that you are pleased with
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July 31st, 2012, 10:02 AM
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July 31st, 2012, 09:55 PM
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Re: GH2 and long night/star exposures
Thanks guys I know how to shoot star trails and do they very well with my 600D but as I am trying to explain their is an issue with the GH2 which prevents long exposures even at 3secs! What am I doing wrong? I am in manual mode with a 3 or 10sec shutter, ISO 100 or 200 and aperture around f7.
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August 1st, 2012, 05:39 AM
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Re: GH2 and long night/star exposures
Where are you getting a shutter speed of 100 on a GH2 ?? the lowest is 160. Try adjusting your aperture, The camera wont fire if you have it it set to high or low. As I said before, its trial and error taking long exposure shots.
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August 1st, 2012, 09:19 AM
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Re: GH2 and long night/star exposures
The easy way...
intervalometer set to bulb. The second easy way, a wireless or wired remote and count one one thousand, two one thousand..... |
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August 3rd, 2012, 08:39 AM
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Re: GH2 and long night/star exposures
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August 3rd, 2012, 08:40 AM
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Re: GH2 and long night/star exposures
So nobody knows how to turn off the manual exposure assistant then?
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August 5th, 2012, 03:05 AM
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Re: GH2 and long night/star exposures
Jalan - just by chance, I shot my first time exposure of the sky with the GH1 the other night. I used "S" mode instead of "M". The camera let me adjust aperture separately from shutter speed by pressing in the front dial (rear dial on the GH2) and toggling between aperture and shutter speed. The results are below. Haven't done it with my GH2 yet, but I'll try it and get back to you.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-X...4/P1010624.JPG https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-N...4/P1010625.JPG Cheers, Bill Hybrid Camera Revolution |
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August 5th, 2012, 06:23 AM
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Re: GH2 and long night/star exposures
Thanks Bill, appreciate your help. Yes share how you did it with the GH2
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August 10th, 2012, 10:40 PM
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Re: GH2 and long night/star exposures
Hi Jalan - I tried it in S mode with the GH2 and was able to make it work.
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-A...4/P1090994.JPG https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-n...4/P1090995.JPG Hope that helps. Bill Last edited by Bill Bruner; August 11th, 2012 at 08:43 AM. |
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