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I always find it depressing when I take a picture by moonlight and it ends up looking very much like a picture taken by sunlight, as opposed to looking like the
by regehr 14y ago
I always find it depressing when I take a picture by moonlight and it ends up looking very much like a picture taken by sunlight, as opposed to looking like the scene looks to our eyes. Always have to keep in mind that a CCD != rods and cones.
Sensitivity is nice but as far as I'm concerned, dynamic range is the main thing that's needed in digital photography. DSLR sensors have gotten much, much better over the last 10 years but there's still plenty of room for improvement.
- trackofalljades 14y agoYou're right, about photography. In video, however, you need tons and tons and tons and tons of sensitivity in addition to dynamic range because you can only use fast "shutter" (electronic, not physical, of course) speeds. Needing to create a perfect image 24, 30, or 60 times a second in the dark requires a very different bag of tricks. This is why, for example, having fewer and larger pixels is vastly preferable for motion versus stills.
- mikec3k 14y agoThat's a result of how metering works - it assumes you want a brightly lit scene. You'll either need to use manual exposure or use one of the spot metering modes, where it measures only the brightness of a focal point rather than the overall scene brightness and tries to compensate.
- Sharlin 14y agoOr you use the exposure compensation setting. But yes, the metering software in a camera does not know how the scene "should" look like. It can only assume that you want a "properly" exposed photo - such that both under- and overexposure is minimized. If you want something else, you'll have to tell the camera what you want.
- aaronbrethorst 14y agoCheck this out: http://www.calphoto.com/moon.htm http://www.calphoto.com/moon.htm There's a lot of great information on how to best capture the moon.