July 8 1998

Moon

   Well, here is the best of the 12 images. As soon as I had them developed I realized I greatly overexposed them. I don't have a working light meter on my camera so I was just fooling around guessing the exposure times. I'll be fixing that in two days by purchasing another OM1 camera body. This one will have a working light meter and won't have the cable release threads stripped. My current OM1 body can only  be used with the timer and exposures up to 1 sec because the cable release threads are worn and the cable release doesn't fasten securely.

   My next shots should be much better. For the next try, I am going to lock the mirror in the up position so as to minimize vibration. The exposure times will also be closer to 1/1000 so  the moon should have more contrast and shouldn't be washed out.

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