Go Shoot the Moon!!!

Wow!! Impressive

....so how was it done? I telescope adapter i guess?

I was curious., too, what a $70 lens can do. This is what i got. Not bad i guess, for a 50mm f1.8.

f8, 1/100s, ISO 100.

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ron chappel wrote:
Wow!! Impressive

....so how was it done? I telescope adapter i guess?

Well.....yes. It's about a 50 year old Scientific Edmunds 6" refractor. Viewing through it looks A LOT better than taking pictures through it. I'm getting a little discouraged. At least I can say I have a "white lens". Now for the red ring around it....

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Well Here's my feebile attemt from tonight.

300D 70-200 F/4L at 200 F22 1/40th ISO 100

some of mine are a little blurry and i was thinking of
sort of bracketing my focus.

set it to MF and move the focus ring in as small increments as i can get it and see if one of them turn out..hmm

Ok this was taken with a sigma 50-500 with the moon low in the sky. the plane just flew in front of it as I was setting up.

This is with a bigma 500mm. Can't wait to get the tela converter 1.4

It might just be your exposure. Have you tried taking a set at different apertures/shutter speeds? I would also try adjusting the focus slightly to either side of what you consider to be ideal to see what happens. Definitely worth persisting for a clear shot of Jupiter IMHO.

could be better, but I was too lazy to go grab my tripod... Here is my morning moon.

Woah, fantastic shots of the moon. Especially jyrgen.

You know, of all the shots in this thread, I like this one the most:

Not that I am trying to compete with 'Dante's thread', but can any of you with the 70-300DO and 1.4 x TC try a shot? Oh, by the way, where are we in the lunar cycle anyway? I'd really like to see how that combo works.

Let me play too....

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watermarkphotography, that pict with the plane, you can sing "fly me to the moon....!

And I *really* love that morning shot, solinger!!

Btw, anyone know if it's possible to put on a converter on the Canon 80-200/2.8 L or is it too old and ruddy for that? I want to photograph the moon, but I can't afford a 500 mm lens, or more.

I'm thinking the same as Foxbat is,it looks overexposed mostly.Try some much higher shutter speeds .
it's also showing some latteral colour fringing (if i've remembered the correct term...) That is correctable in photoshop to a certain extent