The moon

cleanbluesky · 18 Apr 2008 at 15:01

Dugganator · 18 Apr 2008 at 15:13

It might be because I'm at work but nothing is appearing in this thread.

Scuzi · 18 Apr 2008 at 15:13

Not bad. They seem to be fairly well exposed although lacking in sharpness. The lack of sharpness is very evident in the bottom one, probably because it is a heavy crop I assume? Did you use a tripod?

33L · 18 Apr 2008 at 15:27

i had the same problem when i tried this with my 300mm and using a heavy crop. However i dont think i got that level of detail!

divine` · 18 Apr 2008 at 15:31

Scuzi said:
Not bad. They seem to be fairly well exposed although lacking in sharpness. The lack of sharpness is very evident in the bottom one, probably because it is a heavy crop I assume? Did you use a tripod?

It's 100x sharper than anything i've ever managed with the same lens

Totality · 18 Apr 2008 at 17:27

Did you use mirror lockup? Even with a tripod and remote shutter you can get sharper still by locking the mirror. I didnt believe it till I tried!

Dingleberry88 · 18 Apr 2008 at 18:31

cleanbluesky said:

I like that one.

Get rid of the bright white dot on the left though.

When you are the moon....

cleanbluesky · 18 Apr 2008 at 20:24

Totality said:
Did you use mirror lockup? Even with a tripod and remote shutter you can get sharper still by locking the mirror. I didnt believe it till I tried!

I didn't but I'll bear it in mind

cleanbluesky · 18 Apr 2008 at 20:26

33L said:
i had the same problem when i tried this with my 300mm and using a heavy crop. However i dont think i got that level of detail!

I think that a moon shot needs to be VERY under-exposed, the moon is a tiny, very bright thing against a massive dark background and lots of the pictures I took were extremely blurry until I put it at a shutter speed of about 1250 at 100 ISO

SDK^ · 18 Apr 2008 at 21:08

I've taken sharp photos of the moon at 1/125 and F5.6.