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Eclipse attempt w/ 70-200 Lens
Posted By: qdoan, 08-29-2007, 12:02 AM

Here are my attempts at the bloody moon from last night! I wish I had a Bigma or Mirror lens... would've been much better! These are right out of the box, except resized to 800 pixels.

ISO-400, F2.8, 1.5s, @180mm


ISO-400, F2.8, 3.0s, @200mm


ISO-400, F2.8, 1.5s, @200mm

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08-29-2007, 06:16 AM   #2
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I tried this last spring (we didn't get the eclipse here this time because it was too bright). And shot a lot of different shutter speeds to try and learn how to do this best. I'd never tried it before. Most didn't turn out at all. I found that using a shutter speed of no more 1/10th was best. The best shots for me were around 1/30th. The moon travels faster than it appears and that adds to the blur. You're lens is fast enough to go with a faster shutter speed. You could add a 2x and still have the speed to get a good close shot.

You can shoot a full moon at 1/125th so really slow shutter speeds aren't needed.
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Good shots for what you were working with - nice colors !
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Thank for the tips pete! This was my first time shooting anything like this is.. So I put it in P to see what meter readings it was giving me (spot metering, dead on on the moon), and then compensated for 2 steps as the k10 tends to under-expose and that's what I came up with hehe. But I'll def try again when there's another chance..

Thanks Daacon!

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