Originally posted by kerrowdown When I first read the title of the post, I thought you worked for NASA.
wish i was working for nasa.. probably pays a lot more than courier driving
Originally posted by axl Sorry I'm too lazy to check but what is the shutter speed?
Reason why your shots at B mode came out crap is that there is nothing to do with B mode during moonshots. I was having a go at moon too and as many others I discovered that it MOVES. And it does so much faster than we think. I got acceptable images with SMC 400/5.6 with shutter speed of around 1/750 or 1/1000 of second. Anthing slower resulted in bluriness...
good luck next time
BR
Peter
Thanks peter.... my shutter speed was about 4-6 seconds so i now know my shutterspeed was the complete opposite of what i was suposed to be using
Originally posted by Mike Cash Try shooting with the "Moony 11" rule (variation on the "Sunny 16 rule").
For a full moon and with an aperture of f11, your shutter speed should be (roughly) the reciprocal of your ISO. So for ISO 800 you would have 1/750 @ f11.
For a half moon, you lose one stop of light. For a quarter moon, you lose yet another. Pretty easy to calculate.
thanks for the tip mike
Originally posted by Marc Sabatella Since it's a manual lens, I don't know what aperture you were using, but I can see the shutter speed was pretty iffy for handholding (1/125 at 135mm). SR gives you a fighting chance, but doesn't work miracles. A tripod would have helped (I'm assuming you weren't using one). Also, if you were shooting at wide open aperture to get the shutter speed fast enough, that's not going to do any favors for sharpness, either.
yup marc i was using a sturdy tripod and a remote shutter release with the camera . Ok the summary is that i have pretty much used the shutterspeed completely backwards where i should have gone fast instead of slow
I appreciate all the replys.... have learn't some lesssons in night photography, gained some tip's as well as others have. thanks guys,. hopefully the skie's clear tonight so i can put these tip's/lessons into play
cheers
Grant
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ex finn.... those are awesome shots !. and i have a 55-200 dc lens which is the baby brother or older brother to the one you have ( not sure where abouts on the parental table it lies)... will try it with the camera tonight using that lens