First moon with 70-200 f4L

Here it is....cropped like crazy

Not bad for your first go at it . Was the moon off center in the lens or did you cropp it off center like that ? Did you enlarge to 100% before you cropped ?

Thanks! I cropped it like that and I did not enlarge.

It's a nice shot. I have the same comment that I have for the other new Moon shot in the forum tonight - I think it's a tad overexposed. I don't know why, but maybe I just prefer them a little darker. Maybe I need calibration! I bet Celestron's sick of hearing me say it .

I do like the sharpness of that L lens; it does seem to make a difference. I'm very excited to report that I ordered my first white lens just today for hummers by day and maybe the Moon by night.

But this is a good image and I kind of like the off-center look.

It's funny that I underexposed to get a faster shutter speed. This is my second attempt. The first was with a 55-250mm but the L glass made up for the lack of the extra 50mm. How's that for a selling point?

Looks very nice to me, though the cropping is a little off-putting I find. I imagine the full moon when I see shots like this, and if yours was full it would be just about touching the edge of the image, which wouldn't itself be that nice.

Otherwise, nice and sharp.

Bernoulli wrote in post #10628898
It's a nice shot. I have the same comment that I have for the other new Moon shot in the forum tonight - I think it's a tad overexposed. I don't know why, but maybe I just prefer them a little darker. Maybe I need calibration! I bet Celestron's sick of hearing me say it .

NAW Bernoulli , you just know my prefered taste of moon brightness : http://home.grandecom.​net/~r.hodges/moon.htm​l

Was there some kind of PP done on this one? What were the settings?

Just curious, I just began taking moon shots, with the same lens, and I'm getting softer results (Or that could be the crappy old focusing on my Rebel XT:confused

Cropping, a little levels adjustment, and a 25% sharpening. It's much easier to use live view at full magnification to make sure the focus is good. Also, while the live view was zoomed in, I noticed that anything will make tripod shake enough to cause soft focus. I lowered mine down to about 2 1/2 feet from the ground. Another issue, due to the weight of the lens, the camera takes a little time to stop shaking after you press the shutter. Use the time delay or a remote trigger. Hope that helps.

Adrena1in wrote in post #10630358
Looks very nice to me, though the cropping is a little off-putting I find. I imagine the full moon when I see shots like this, and if yours was full it would be just about touching the edge of the image, which wouldn't itself be that nice.

Otherwise, nice and sharp.

Point taken. I see where you are coming from. Thanks!

customsound79 wrote in post #10634280
Cropping, a little levels adjustment, and a 25% sharpening. It's much easier to use live view at full magnification to make sure the focus is good. Also, while the live view was zoomed in, I noticed that anything will make tripod shake enough to cause soft focus. I lowered mine down to about 2 1/2 feet from the ground. Another issue, due to the weight of the lens, the camera takes a little time to stop shaking after you press the shutter. Use the time delay or a remote trigger. Hope that helps.

Best and esiest way is to use "Mirror Lockup" if your camera has it in the "Custom Functions" .

jsboutin wrote in post #10633961
Was there some kind of PP done on this one? What were the settings?

Just curious, I just began taking moon shots, with the same lens, and I'm getting softer results (Or that could be the crappy old focusing on my Rebel XT:confused

Do you have "Mirror Lockup" in your custom settings ? If so that will help alot at focus issues . Do you manually focus or use the auto focus the lens ? Some ppl say they have better luck manually focusing but i find it easier to set the lens to AF and point at the brightest star or planet like Venus for example in the west in the late evening . Tripod mount the camera , point at Venus , RH forefinger on the shutter button , the forefinger of the LH on the AF-MF switch . Push the shutter button til focus snaps and quickly slide the AF-MF switch back the the MF position and never touch the lens to refocus again . Just point the camera at the moon and start shooting and check each shot upclose for focus . Also this works best if you have the Focus Sensors in the viewer set to use center Focus Sensor only for all Manual Modes . Hope this helps some .