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Moon Pic's

Digitaljunkie · 2008-05-10 23:03:53

Hello all I'm quite new to this, I would like to take some close up shots of the moon. I'm using a 400D with a 300mm lense and a manfrotto pod. Cheerz D.

10-05-2008 11:03pm

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Digitaljunkie

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Hello all

I'm quite new to this, I would like to take some close up shots of the moon. I'm using a 400D with a 300mm lense and a manfrotto pod.

Cheerz D.

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#2 10-05-2008 11:26pm

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You may be interested in this thread which has some useful information, examples of other people attempts, links etc...

My best attempt with a 300mm is this but i reckon I need more mm's on the lens to get closer / better detail / etc...

If you do a forum search you'll find lots of threads discussing it.

This is one of my favorites - the guy uses a 8" Meade Schmidt-Newtonian Telescope attached to his sony A700 - this is kinda why i think i need more mm's on the lens front.

That reminds me - off to eBay to find some tele-converters.

Good luck with it.

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#3 10-05-2008 11:43pm

Borderfox

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First one is from a 30 or 20d with a sigma 50-500 with a 1.4x tc (full size not a crop) and the second is from a 40d and a 100-400 @400 (crop)

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#4 11-05-2008 12:29am

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Nice shot An Cat... Keith you won't fool me, I know the first picture is just a used teabag Only messin' with ya.

Theirs lots of threads about moon shots posted before that might be of use too - Linky

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#5 11-05-2008 6:32pm

Digitaljunkie

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Nice one folks thanks for the help some good links with good info, nice pic's to. Guess i'll look a bit harder in the forms in future,

Cheerz D.

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#6 12-05-2008 8:43am

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you can get great moon shots with a 300mm lens, if you time them right. use something like a church sipre or some other point of image to contrast the moon, or just image the moon at an interesting time, like a lunar eclipse. here is my march 2007 eclipse set , roughly strewn together in photoshop, with a 300mm equivalent lens:

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