How to get close moon shots with a 75-300?

[Viva-photography]

Do I just have to crop it like crazy?
or would I just be wasting my time?

If you know any good articles about this, or previous threads, please post a link. :p

[sparkin]

Do I just have to crop it like crazy?
or would I just be wasting my time?

If you know any good articles about this, or previous threads, please post a link. :p

I'm not an expert, but I don't think you can do much apart from crop. Even at 300mm, the moon just won't fill enough of your frame.

I've gotten some passable shots with a 70-200 f2.8 with stacked 1.4x and 2x extenders, but they're nowhere near as good as those taken with a big long prime or a telescope.

[Adrena1in]

Shooting at 300mm certainly isn't a waste of time, but as Sean says you won't get the lunar disc appearing that large unless you start stacking teleconverters. 1000-1500mm is about right for a moon that nearly fills the sensor. But I've got quite good shots with my 420mm telescope at prime focus, and although I had to crop it a lot there was still plenty of detail (http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/6392/moonwozs70.jpg).

[Viva-photography]

Ok. Thanks guys.
I guess I'll just give it a shot and see how it ends up.

[Trixster!]

This is the best I could manage with a 70-200 on full frame, cropped to 100%:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2688/4399970250_2323bc2650_o.jpg

[ferretkingdom]

This is with my 55-250
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_k7ks50MrHWM/SvD60b7XhRI/AAAAAAAAPQ4/jkUY08wI97k/s640/60%20-%20Handheld.JPG

[jemann]

This shot taken with 100-400L on a 40D (640mm equivalent):

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/2869933882_5f1b676ef0_o.jpg

No resizing, just cropped to cut off all the surrounding black.

[Supra_t]

This is what I got with a cheap Tamron 70-300

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/4391255331_83484b57d3_o.jpg