These turned out pretty well. Now I did some zooming in with my camera to see what it looked like more up close. This is pretty impressive I think.
Dereelight DBS-T XR-E 400yds on about 14x
Now this really looks good.
Dereelight DBS-T 375yds
Same shot zoomed in on 18x. This is so awesome.
Great pictures!!! The 2nd picture shows how amazing these DBS lights throw.
Hi ILF, time for you to buy a lux meter, you have too many thrower lights. And they are not that expensive anyway....
Do you have camera settings for your shots? Very impressed with the zoomed shot, I gather you would have had to increase exposure times.
ILF usually keeps the image EXIF data available. (Thank you for doing that!!)
For the above pictures:
1st photo: 52.1mm 2.8 sec, f/4.5, ISO 200 (full EXIF here)
2nd photo: 4.7mm 2.8 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 (full EXIF here)
3rd photo: 52.1mm 2.8 sec, f/4.5, ISO 200 (full EXIF here)
Note that the focal length seems short due to small sensor, but 52.1mm equals to 486mm in 35mm format!
You shouldn't need to change anything for the same relative brightness, since the physical distance from object to sensor doesn't change.
The only reason to increase exposure would be to compensate for differing lens efficiency at longer focal lengths.
+1 to what Chicago X said.
..and he actually reduced the exposure, since the exposure time remained the same but the zoomed shot was taken with smaller aperture. (Maximum aperture for full zoom in his camera is the above mentioned f/4.5)
I used the nite mode SP2 setting on my camera. It's been the most consistent especially on farther distances to match what I see. The manual settings won't do this. So when I zoom in the settings change from when I don't zoom in as much or at all. I am not a big camera person, nor do I care to be. So don't try going over my head on all of this. Take it for what it is. Thanks.
very impressive aspheric. It's about 100k lux right? my HID should be about 300k but don't know if the result would be as impressive as your beamshots :o
Excellent shots, B.
I don't mind speaking for the forum when I say they are much appreciated.
I feel bad for your neighbors. They must have thought they were being abducted 
Ditto. Good stuff.
I'm not big camera buff but I was thinking the longer the lens (zoomed in) the less light was gathered. My experience or lack of goes back to film days.
