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lemme see your shots for the moon!
this is mine btw
captured with canon 2000d 55mm i can not remember my camera settings
i gave it some edit with lightroom this is first time with DSLR
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Shot with Canon 1300D and Tair 3s 300/4.5. The setup is cooler than the photo, the extra weight makes it a bit more stable in my opinion
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uploading from phone because i am not at my pc
recently got a new lense so it's very likely im gonna take more moon pics in the future
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crappy eclipse shot I got on film still kinda like it
I think it was on a Zeiss 150 with the Rollei 6008
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from the lunar eclipse in march this year. 5dmkii with sigma 150-600mm C at 600mm
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Not sure if thats just noise or stars in the back (I'm guessing noise)
ISO 2000
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>>4461262
yikes let me fix those dust spots lmao
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>>4461199
for me it is the kitlens the camera was a gift from a kind person and I tried to shot it using a narrow aperture and high shutter speed also lowest iso then I edited it with lightroom crop and fix the color the moon was like enabled night shift XD
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>>4461077
From work, iPhone.
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>>4461343
Not that Anon, but...
The darkened part of the Moon is illuminated by the Earth. The bright part is lit by the Sun. As seen from the Moon, the Earth would look gibbous (more than half-lit). The thinner the crescent, the closer to the line from the Sun to the Earth, the fuller the Earth, the more "earthshine" lights up the Moon. Sailors used to guess coming weather - the brighter the earthshine, the cloudier the weather to the west, from where the prevailing winds come. Yeah, not very accurate, but you know.
Here's a hot I took of the crescent Moon on April 10, 2024. That's Jupiter next to the tree. If you zoom in you can see some of its moons!
The file is not quite original. Right off the camera, the file size exceeds /p/'s limit, so I shrunk it to quarter the size (half the original side dimensions of 6048 x 4024) but was able to keep the exif from the original.
This is the exif: Nikon D780, Nikon 18-120mm lens at 55mm, f/7.1, 10 seconds, ISO-100
Also, this guy is an idiot:
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>>4461141
Here is it with the new lens
sorry for the wait
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Here is the best one I have taken so far. I still have room for improvement.
Rebel T6i, 100-400 II and the 2X III teleconverter.
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Canon 90D with Tamron 150-600
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>>4464142(me)
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here's one of the full moon
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>>4466323
Here's the basketball Moon for the basketball pindos))
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Oh god look at it!
It is so RED
HOW DID IT GET SO MAGNIFICENTLY CRINSOM!
Moon coom!
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>>4466426
It really do be like that
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Lumix FZ82D
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Sony a6000 and a massive lens adapted to it that is probably like 4000mm
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>>4466388
I wasn't prepared for that day
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>>4468257
>had a total lunar eclipse just a week ago
>I was busy the entire time
>Only came home when it ended and was able to snap this
Feels blyad man.
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a6000 w/ Vivitar 90-230mm
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>>4473198
But here's a photo of an eclipse that happened a while ago. In person it was more blue. I glimpsed it for a fraction of a second because I was scared of going blind or frying my eyes; though I heard it was safe to stare during totality.
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a7rii with sigma 150-600mm @ 600mm + apsc crop ~900mm. + image crop
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Eos 600D wiv Sigma 70-300mm, Still learning how to use this camera.
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from a couple years ago
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Canon PowerShot SX710HS
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>>4473487
Same
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>>4472571
yeah
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>>4473939
I also has this moon.
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>>4473940
>is of having*
also this moon?
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Also, you might be of thinking this is speck of shit on lens.
But no. Is luna.
Small luna also luna, da?
Is qualifies?
Is okay if no qualifies.
Love from Moscow.
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Next to zero effort crop of 300mm at recent eclipse
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Canon 90d
Tamron 100-400
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>>4475055
Because of pixel density. The same size crop on the Sony is actually lower resolution. The Sony sensor is lower resolution in fact, if you look at it like it's film (line pairs per mm). You'd need a 470mm lens to produce the same resolution image on an a7RIV.
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I guess the moon is nice tonight
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A6700
Tamron 16 300
Handheld
Can t remeber the settings
But using lumy11 most prob
So iso 100
Ss 1/100
F11
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>>4476344
>Tamron 18 300
Here's my take, but with α6000
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Hot off the presses; tonight's big hairy beaver supermoon or whatever.
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Nikon Z7ii Nikkor 180-600mm 1.4x TC
840mm f/11 iso 64 ss 1/60 about 130 images stacked using 50% lucky imaging. First try at autostakkert. Overdid it on the slider tweaking in lightroom. I should have used a higher ss and taken off the UV filter to get it sharper.
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cheesy moon tonight
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yet another shot of the beaver moon. I am
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this anon. same setup.
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Was gonna shoot this bastard rising over the lake but couldn't make it out of the office in time, fuck me.
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Fuji X-T4 // 500mm TTArtisan f6.3
1/60s
~f9 (it isn't registered in the EXIF, el cheapo very manual Chinese lens)
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Canon R6m2 100-400mm F5.6-8
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Guess the body and the lens. I'm not doing this to be cleaver I'm just curious what people would guess.
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The one time Phoenix II looked ok
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Mars (left), waning crescent Moon (over Lumen Field, Seattle), Venus (up, right of Moon) rising Sept. 11, 2015.
Nikon D5200, kit 18-55mm at 55mm, f/8, 2sec, ISO-1000
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ZV-E10 + SEL55210 taken last week iirc, obviously cropped
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I forgot this thread exists.
>>4472561
>a6000 w/ Vivitar 90-230mm
Same setup, found another pic I took a week or two before that previous one. Not as happy with this, feel like a lot of detail was lost and it's overexposed. I like the general vibe of it though.
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Is that the Series 1 90-230 Flat-field?
There is a LOT of detail to be had in that lens if you stop it down, insane detail, I have one for my F3HP, it's basically a macro lens that zooms and it's made for ridiculous subject detail.
Play with it a little more, stop it down and use a tripod if you have to. That lens is a well-kept secret.
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Yeah, I use a tripod. It's unusable if freehanded.
>flat-field
How would I check? Serial number give any clues?
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Hey guys, retard here!
I'm using a Canon Rebel T7 and all my shots end up looking like this.
How do I fix?
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Overexposed. With moon shots just keep the ISO at a minimum and shutter speed relatively high.
Camera is trying to expose 18% middle grey for the whole scene which includes the inky black sky = it's trying to find detail in the sky and overblowing the very bright moon.
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>>4499383
Illuminated part of Moon is a dark grey subject in bright sunlight. Full Moon is considerably brighter than half.
I don't recall what I used when last snapped moon years ago but I'd start from ISO100 1/400 f 5.6.
(Oct 4 2004, 16:33 at 68 N. Pentax Optio 43WR, ISO 50, f3.9 1/160, digital zoom 4)
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Very patchy cloudcover here in Hawkes Bay NZ, but got a good 30 minutes of photography in totality, more clouds rolled through just now. Though with my 2010 DSLR's stock lens I barely got 40 pixels of moon width, and without a fancy mount I was only getting 5 second exposures before motion blur started kicking in. Was still fun, I'll sift through the photos in the morning.
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I'm the poster with the Vivitar 90-230mm. I'm actually kinda happy with this pic, especially when you consider that it's an ancient consumer-grade telezoom lens built in the same year as the first Moon landing.
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Pentax 50mm 1.4
My 270 zoom was way too soft
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That's not the flat-field model, it would say Series 1 on the front.
Vivtar made a tele-macro lens in the 90-230 range, or maybe 90-180 I can't remember, just search "flat-field Series 1"
They're pretty cheap and yield excellent results.
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I hadn't heard about the Series 1 range prior to your posts so I did a bit of research and I don't think they ever did a Series 1 variant of the 90-230. It's definitely the 90-180 you must be thinking of.
Thanks for making me aware of the existence of the Series 1 lenses, I'll have to keep an eye out for them in future. There's always a few people each month selling their dead boomer grandpa's old photography gear on Marketplace for the equivalent of a slab of beer, most of it's trash but there's a few diamonds to be found and I imagine sooner or later I'll spot one of these lenses in a listing.
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>>4499447
Yeah not brilliant. Kinda want to make a sidereal mount using an arduino and stepper motor now, seems like it’s not too difficult of a project, but getting it positioned properly seems like it could be a hassle.
I’d also want some sort of exposure meter that works in very low light levels, though maybe a simple guide/calculator tool would be sufficient. Years ago I attempted to disassemble my cheap remote flash button and add a digitally controllable timer for long exposures, but at some point I gave up and assembled it again.
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Chilly here, 10C days when it was over 20C just a few days ago. But I had my long johns on.
Were you anywhere close to the city centre? I tried some long exposure star photography in the Auckland Domain 7 years ago when I was at uni there, but I never really got any worthwhile results. Too impatient, too cold, and definitely a lot of light pollution. Havelock North is definitely less bad, but it would be much better 5km out or more.
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Nowhere near the center, I'm south but not as far as Pukekohe, I wonder if you can get some decent dark skies in the rural areas around there. I always see a hell of alot of light pollution coming from the north when I look out the window at night. If you have an opportunity to go to the dark sky reserve near Lake Tekapo, it's well worth it. Pic related from 2022; even though I had even less of an idea of what I was doing then than I do now, it's quite stunning.
25s f/4 +1 EV can't remember ISO, no other edits
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sony a6700
tamron 18 300
ss1/100
f11
iso 100
handheld
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a little sharpness edit in win 10 photo editor
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>>4499567
a6700
sigma 16mm
ss10s
f1.8
iso 2000
10 images stacked in sequator+1 dark frame
sony offical preset for milkyway in lrc
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>>4499567
Yeah the south side of Te Mata Peak should be pretty dark. My co-worker got some good star shots at Waimarama beach. But none as good as what you’ve taken there, wow that’s nice. 25s is getting long, but I guess zoomed out like that it doesn’t make much of a difference. I should get into the camera math and calculate what exposure times result in 1 pixel of star blur at different zooms.
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>>4499613
>Nikon D3100, DX sensor with F-mount
>4608 x 3072 pixel sensor for 14.2MP
>has stock 18-55mm lens
>lunar day = 89,428.3 seconds
>at 55mm, moon takes up 49 pixels across
>at 18mm, moon takes up 17 pixels across
>moon size = 31 arcminutes = 31/(60*360) = 0.00143519 of a full rotation
>if the moon = 49 pixels, then 1 pixel is 29.2895E-6 rotations, then it takes 2.62 seconds to blur through a single pixel
>if the moon = 17 pixels, then 1 pixel is 84.4227E-6 rotations, then it takes 7.55 seconds to blur through a single pixel
Interesting, guess I was baking it a bit long with 5s. Which implies that with any decent telephoto lens, and with any halfway modern image sensor, your exposures are going to be decently short if you want to avoid blurring pixels, and so getting enough light becomes an issue. So the extra-wide aperture lenses would start to make sense, and it also explains all the image stacking I'm seeing here because nobody was autistic enough to make a motorised sidereal mount.
If I want to make a motorised sidereal mount capable of even my current lens, it would need to remain stable to within 38 arc-seconds. A common 1.8 degree stepper motor with a 256-microstepping driver gets me to 25 arc-seconds direct-drive, it could be lower using a belt reduction or a 0.9 degree stepper. Though using some magnets and a magnetic encoder like Diffraction Limited does in his XYZ micro-manipulator seems like it would be a cheap way to make it far finer, enough for even hundreds of mega-pixels. It's the motors that are the expensive part. I wouldn't normally bother with this sort of side-project, but it is a nice intermediary step in my existing precision motor driving journey, so it might be worth $100USD. I hope a lazy susan bearing is good enough.
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The most recent eclipse a few days ago. Fuji XH2
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>worms on the moon
>all that posterization and softness
>color shifts
>apparent focus miss (green border = OOF CA)
Worms on the moon aside $2k camera and you couldnt even turn the jpeg compression down and zoom in to manually focus bruv?
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>>4499800
what are this worms you are talking about?
trying to figure them out in the pic
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>>4499654
>Fuji XH2 $2,299.00
>XF100-400mm lens $2,249.00
>teleconverter $499.00
to take this photo?
the fuck?
maybe the teleconverter is shit and ruining your photos, try without it and see. you must have a defective unit. camera lens or teleconverter
even with autofocus on the moon i get sharper images than yours and all my 3 lenses combined cost les then yours (all new)
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you mean this?
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>>4499552
The older Series 1 manual focus stuff is better, after a while they threw Series 1 on everything they had like what BMW did with the M brand.
I have a few, the 90-180, 35-85, 70-210/3.5, and 90 macro. They are very well made and the optics are superb.
The exception is the 100-400 AF they made that was Series 1, with a small red ring on the end, that was actually pretty good. I had one if you bring it down to f/8 you would never know, it can hang with my Canon L lenses and Nikon ED. Almost no color fringing if any at all, very sharp, good detail and contrast.
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A Dec 4 2014 snap, edited today
EOS 600D + 400mm vintage potato masher. This one ISO400 and less blurry than ISO 100 ones which were less grainy...
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As far as I know cheap telephotos tend to be either 50's-60's tech potato mashers, mirror lenses or ludicrous toy zooms. If you want cheap and a bit sharper than a $30 vintage potato masher, modern Samgyang (or rebrands) 500mm f6.3 mirror lens should be better than any vintage of same or less price. It's quite fiddly to use and not as sharp or contrasty as a $1000+ tele of course. (There's a 800mm f8 version too. I've not seen any convincingly good photos taken with it.)
Mount and seeing matters a lot. Even the best lens will no give a good moon snap through blurry turbulence with camera on a wobbly tripod.
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The thing is i want a lens only to get goon moon shots. Most probably all the cheap ones are manual focus so not usable for anything moving. Other than moon shots with or without foreground will not use so i don t want to throw a lot of money at something i ll barley use
Tt artisans 500 6.3 cames up but is 450€ new compared to 360$ in us. Lol
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The crop from the full res picture
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Supermoon on a cold setember night in 2024. I remember the eerie halloween vibe walking up a forest hill to take this picture
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>>4464142
I think that's me 200 days ago, I can't remember. Idk why the photo looks so bad though, this one is better.
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>>4503417
You forgot the 0 retard
It's a Vivitar 420-800mm f/8.3 lens, got it for like 70 bucks and had to buy a ~10 dollar adapter cause it's a T mount.
Lens is what you pay for,
no auto focus, which is actually cancer to use when zoomed in at 800mm cause the zoom dial is on the end of the lens.
You get green/purple chromatic aberration but taking moon pics I can just grayscale it.
Pretty cheap way to take nice pictures of the moon imo
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Sony zve10. 55-210 4.5-6.3 OSS zoomed in all the way.
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