Moonies picture thread (Show us your moonlight mode in use!)

[Candlestick]

While some may laugh at super low output modes, I would say that the ability to have a dim light that is just bright enough is huge, especially when it hardly drains the batter at all. I thought it would be cool to have a thread dedicated to pictures / use cases / stories for these super low modes.

I'll start off, I have started keeping a dream journal, handwritten of course. To avoid burning my eyes out at 4 am I am using my H502c at 0.01 lumen, just bright enough to read and write legibly on a small page.

From writing, to reading, night photography, map reading, to just not bumping into things late at night Moonlight & low mode by far is my most used mode time wise, while still easily being the least used mode battery wise.

 

[bykfixer]

Unless mother nature konks out the all night generator the world I live in has about 3 lumens of all night light. On a cloudy night about 5 lumens at any given time so to light up a shadow requires at least 5 lumens.
That's indoors too unless the room darkening shades are pulled.

At 2am nature calls I can literally see my black dogs on a tan carpet as I navigate to the bathroom. So trying to read or write by so-called moonlight or firefly would be like no light at all. Same for night time photography.

 

[Candlestick]

Unless mother nature konks out the all night generator the world I live in has about 3 lumens of all night light. On a cloudy night about 5 lumens at any given time so to light up a shadow requires at least 5 lumens.
That's indoors too unless the room darkening shades are pulled.

At 2am nature calls I can literally see my black dogs on a tan carpet as I navigate to the bathroom. So trying to read or write by so-called moonlight or firefly would be like no light at all. Same for night time photography.

Fair enough, when I lived in ID and Cali that was the case for me too, I really hate light pollution. Luckily enough for me, despite the streetlights nearby there is never any more light around than actual moonlight. I think my night vision has also improved since moving away from light polution, back then I could have never written or read by moonlight, let alone walk around/ light up a room with 0.01 lumen flood light. I attribute it to the overall treecover. I remember the night sky in So. Ca being an angry yellow from all of the streetlights. I guess night vision and relative light levels vary from person to person. When I said night photography I meant more for seeing the camera controls while opporatin' at night.
Here is an example, Boonies of Montana, this picture looks like there is lots of light pollution, but in person there was none.I could walk and see by the sheer starlight hitting the ground, this is a 7,000 second exposure with a decade old budget DSLR. That was an example of sub 1 lumen being plenty to walk by. Outside here I still use 3 lumens minimum while outdoors, but amazingly I can still see color close up with the super low modes.