Moon photos

alexisonfire

alexisonfire

alexisonfire

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Well thought i would test out my new lens, the nikon 55-200mm AF-S. First impressions are very good. Its incredible compact when at 55mm, infact its about 2mm longer than the 18-55mm kits lens. Build quality could be better, lots of cheap plastics, but it does feel well made. Focus ring is tight and nice to use, and same for the zoom ring. Im no expert, but imo this lens is very sharp, even at long focal lengths, i paid £120 new for mine, and at this price its a steal.

Anyway heres the photographs i've just taken. Pretty impressive considering the equipment used comes to about £400-£420. (100% crops)

moon1.jpg


moon2.jpg
 
Very impressive for the price eh? May look at getting me a larger lens if i can though, you recon you'd get perhaps a 300?

Nice shots.
 
One I just took -




Also a 100% crop (although it was only on an s5600, only £400? :eek: ;))

Edit: Resized a little, was a bit on the large side.
 
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Syk3 said:
Very impressive for the price eh? May look at getting me a larger lens if i can though, you recon you'd get perhaps a 300?

Nice shots.
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FWIW that is 300mm on the D40—cropped sensors make teles even more awesome :cool:
 
robmiller said:
FWIW that is 300mm on the D40—cropped sensors make teles even more awesome :cool:
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No it isn't :)

Probably best not to get into that argument though :p


God-damn stealth edits, but still, you can't just say 200mm is 300mm.
 
divine_madness said:
God-damn stealth edits, but still, you can't just say 200mm is 300mm.
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That lens at 200mm on a D40, which has a 1.5x crop sensor, has a FOV equal to 300mm on a full-frame. Which is what I meant.
 
robmiller said:
That lens at 200mm on a D40, which has a 1.5x crop sensor, has a FOV equal to 300mm on a full-frame. Which is what I meant.
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Which is correct :)

Just annoys me a touch when people just say 200=300 or 100=150 for example...
 
what setting did you use to get those shots

I have heard that there is a way to get the settings automaticaly from pictures people post, but i cant figure out how. I can do it with pictures on my own pc, but not ones people post (even if i save them)

I like to see what settigns people are using, as just seeing them can answer a lot of questions for us un informed beginners
 
Bolerus said:
...but not ones people post (even if i save them)....
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Photoshops (and I imagine other photoediting packages) "Save for the Web" option strips all the EXiF (the information about shutter/apature/iso etc) data fro the photo to further reduce it's file size.

often the only way to find out is ask, or my favourite - get out and try it yourself :)
 
"get out and try yourself" is great, but its much better if you have an idea what people are using to get successful captures.
 
thanks alex

f34
iso 1600

I would never had even considered going that high on aperature or iso numbers. I will try it now though :P
 
SDK^ said:
Those settings are far from being the best.
Why use ISO1600 and then set the aperture to F34 :confused:

Use ISO 100 and F8


Also - there is no such aperture as F34 ;)
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I meant 32, not 34, my mistake.

And why are you saying use iso100 and F8? (generally want to know why you chose these in particular)
 
alexisonfire said:
And why are you saying use iso100 and F8? (generally want to know why you chose these in particular)
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As you'll be cropping the Moon shot to 100% you'll want as low noise as possible, the D40 goes down to ISO 200 so try that :)

The whole point about using a high ISO is to make the camera sensor more sensitive to light, so why do that and then remove all of that light by using F32 - it doesn't make any sense :)
 
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