I was feeling Inferiority complex with my 50-200 mm lens that its reach is not much for shooting moon.
But I just took a shot tonight. I guess its OK but not so great. Its cropped heavily too.



I'll try to improve, but is higher zoom lens inevitable for moon shooting?

Atindra

[jmc7104]

It does help considerably. This is with my 500mm.
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With very little crop. Have to try it with my 2x tele-converter on tripod.

[Mark2100]

I have never taken a decent shot of the moon. Yours looks pretty good for 200mm. I always find moon lint.

[Atindra]

It does help considerably. This is with my 500mm.

With very little crop. Have to try it with my 2x tele-converter on tripod.

Your shot is quite nice and I've seen similar from 500 mm lenses. I am thinking for DA 55-300 mm lens.

Atindra

[Atindra]

@ Mark
Can you post exif data for your image? What I experienced is shooting full moon is difficult with compared to half one.

Atindra

[Mark2100]

@ Mark
Can you post exif data for your image? What I experienced is shooting full moon is difficult with compared to half one.

Atindra

Holy cow... that was taken last Christmas eve... ISO 100, Shutter 3/10th, Soligor 450mm @ probably f11, with a 3X converter... effective f33... I'm guessing because of the slow shutter. The post before was a crop. Here is the original resized only.

[roentarre]

Great capture with revealing details on the moon surface