moon photography on film?

-I took a photograph of the moon and it when the index print came out I noticed that the moon was washed out. I followed my exposure meter and the exposure was about 3 seconds.

-I took a multiple exposure of the moon as it moves through the sky
I did 11 exposures on 1 frame and I under exposed each exposure to -11, still
the moon was washed out

-the film I used is SOLID GOLD 200, lens is 70-300 mm

Q: How do I solve this problem and come up with a photo of the moon with full

details and not washed out

can you post the images so we can see? based on your statements a shutter speed of 3 seconds is too long. as far as i know since i've only tried this once; around 1/60 - 1/30 at f/16 and iso 100 is ok for a bright, full moon. so since you used an asa 200 film i guess you'd have to set a relatively faster shutter speed.

Where did you "meter" exactly and what metering mode? The moon is VERY bright, it's the main and only natural lightsource at night. Depending on your aperture, most likely, the shutter speed shouldn't take that long to capture details of the moon.

Try this :) (http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/howtophoto/index.htm)

I use 1/200 or 1/400 at iso 100. Wait for a new moon. I have a pic of the moon with details using also 70-300mm lens, but cropped. Im using DSLR by the way. Just click on my link below

ive heard of a moony 11 rule.

@ f11, shutter speed is the nearest if not the reciprocal of ISO/ASA value .

so if you're using an ASA 200 film, then f11, 1/200.

HTH. :)

try it at f11, 1/125, iso 100

some links on the moony 11 rule (from google) hehehe

http://photonotes.org/cgi-bin/entry.pl?id=Moony11rule
http://www.fotohacker.com/2007/12/21/the-sunny-16-and-moony-11-rules/

as said on the 2nd link --
"Because the lighting won’t always fall squarely into these exposure rules, some tweaking may be required - but they’ll definitely get you in the neighborhood."

thank you everyone! now I'm excited to do my next shoot!