Longtime exposures

in daylight now works better for me. I had earlier ordered several K&F ND 100.000x gray filters which reduce the light by 16.7 stops. K&F makes very good filter with their Nano series - and now i feel that i was good money spend for excellent quality I get now. Much more even & homogeneous compared to last time i tested.

Possibly i over-bought Gray filters in the past 2 months (which feel like an endless amount, plus even more of those step up and step down rings)... which cost quite a lot of money.

I started first with a set of ND 1000x in various sizes... but then realized i needed much stronger ones; like ND 100.000x factor.

So now i am working with 3 or 4 of those, in various sizes - adapted to my most common Fujifilm GF lenses. After all, I am using primarily the Fujifilm GFX platform for longtime exposures in daylight. Therefore now i don't need to use any step-up or step-down adapters (which at times was a hassle) - nor do i need to try to match older ND filters (of which some are not very neutral. The older they are, the more issues with color casts they produced). The mix-and-match didn't works so well as i thought. Now i have a homogeneous setup of Gray filters in various sizes and strength, all based on the K&F Neno-X gray filter platform. They are very good, and pretty affordable ! Not cheap, but affordable.

So - finally longtime exposures in daylight works well - and i am very happy.

Special branch within photography

Doing longtime exposures in daylight is like a special genre within photography... which i wish to explore far more in the near future. Especially when springtime starts anew in 2027. Which is aligned with a great portion of new inspiration to go out. Now in autumn, i realize that my "longing" to go out, is slowly starting to ebb out.

Yet, we are lucky with rather mild temperatures in Stockholm, hovering around 17°C, and it may even get a not warmer to 18°C in the beginning of October.

Stockholm absolute record 20.2°C, Oct 1985

The absolute warmth record for Stockholm in October month is 20.2°C - pushing out the old record from 1802 with was 20.0°C (i believe). This new record was the warmest October temperature since Stockholm started its observations in 1756.

I belove this comes from 4 Oct 1985, but also 9 Oct 1995 it came very, very close (19.4° in the City), even surpassed the official record, in other parts of larger Stockholm.

In 11 Oct 2005, it once again came close with 18.7°C.

On 13 October 2018 Stockholm City registered 19.4°C, and a few days later, on 15 Oct 2018 again warm with 19.0°C. Fascinating late date, to be honest.

In 2020 it was time again, on 5 Oct with 19.0°C