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long exposures during the day

Gavin · 2008-02-25 17:00:14

Hey, a noob here, I just got a lend of a tripod and was messing around. I wanted to take a long exposure of a roundabout to get the blur of cars flying around it. Unfortunately, I can't get a shutter speed long enough with an aperture small enough. Is this just my lens, how small do apertures go ? 36 I think was as low as…

25-02-2008 5:00pm

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Gavin

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Hey, a noob here,

I just got a lend of a tripod and was messing around. I wanted to take a long exposure of a roundabout to get the blur of cars flying around it.

Unfortunately, I can't get a shutter speed long enough with an aperture small enough. Is this just my lens, how small do apertures go ? 36 I think was as low as the aperture would go.

Would some sort of filter help?

cheers,
Gav

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#2 25-02-2008 5:07pm

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You can use stacked ND filters for exposures up to maybe 8-10 seconds, or if you'd like much longer you can use an infrared filter to go up to a minute or longer

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#3 25-02-2008 5:11pm

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Great ! Thanks for that !

Gav

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#4 25-02-2008 8:00pm

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you could stack a linear polariser onto a circular polariser to get a variable ND filter. That way when they're properly aligned you could do huge exposures!

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