Go Shoot the Moon!!!

Here is mine from few days ago, with some converters'n'stuff. Almost full frame.

10D + Kenko 1.5x + Sigma 1.4x + Sigma 2x + 100-400@360, aperture closed down 2 stops

hey jyrgen,

you really had 3 teleconverters on the camera at the same time? that would be crazy..makes sense though i guess..

so if i was to take a picture of hte moon with a 2x teleconverter and a 300mm lense on an XT. i would focus etc..then see what the camera spits up for exposure and make it 2 stops (more closed) on the aperature? is that even close ?

felix21685 wrote:
so if i was to take a picture of hte moon with a 2x teleconverter and a 300mm lense on an XT. i would focus etc..then see what the camera spits up for exposure and make it 2 stops (more closed) on the aperature? is that even close ?

That's just a starting point - try it yourself and use your histogram!

Hi Felix,

I just stopped down the aperture to partially compensate the presumably huge quality loss from using (a lot of) TC-s. You don't have to. I have wide open shots too from yesterday. Since the Moon filled most of the frame, I used autoexposure, but compensated to the right to get as much information as possible, and then pulled back in post processing. I shot in daylight btw.

Here's mine from a while ago:

So that's what it is, I thought my ball head was creeping and I had it so tight my wrists hurt from the effort!

foxbat wrote:
Here's mine from a while ago:

originally posted here:

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=63924

Ok, how did you do it? Tripod? Settings? converter? That blows mine away!

jyrgen wrote:
Here is mine from few days ago, with some converters'n'stuff. Almost full frame.

10D + Kenko 1.5x + Sigma 1.4x + Sigma 2x + 100-400@360, aperture closed down 2 stops

I took some more yesterday, when I received a Minolta VN Angle Finder, which makes focusing that much easier. Plus, it's funny to watch thru it how quickly the Moon actually travels. When trying closer apertures I quickly ran into motion blur issues, and my panning skills just didn't cut it yet

Will process the shots today and post if anything better comes out.

I did not know you could stack teleconverters.

I've seen the moon moving in a telescope, so I guess that's what you created. It was manual focus right? And just what is Minolta VN Angle Finder?

jyrgen wrote:

Wow, that's the equivalent of a 2688mm lens, a gust of wind would probably have caused motion blur, but at that huge magnification, you'd certainly notice the relative motion of the moon and earth

Shot a few nights ago on my way home from work, 75-300 non-IS, handheld, 1/160s, f9, ISO800

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Man!!!!! I was so thrown by the title. I was already surveying my gun collection to figure out what I had that could reach that far.

Plenty of good pics here.

I was using the 400mm f/5.6L on the 300D. Exposure was 1/320s at f/5.6 ISO 200. I used a tripod with a remote shutter release.

Remind me not to disagree with any of your posts!

Handheld huh? You must have a steadier hand or a much better copy of the 75-300 than me.

Nice shots all. This isn't much of a "great" moon shot, but I was curious what the 50mm f/1.4 could do. This is hand held at 1/1250s F2.8, and MAJOR cropped. Not bad for an itty bitty image.

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