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After looking at Garys HAndheld moon shot I thought I would give it a go using the same settings as his!

This is what I ended up with!



Un-cropped!



Cropped in closer...

Cheers

Scott

Scott, that handheld shot beats all my tripod shots!! ... but now I have the Benro rather then my cheap and nasty tripod I might have another crack at it.

Was you shot taken at 400mm ?

Alpha_7 wrote:Scott, that handheld shot beats all my tripod shots!! ... but now I have the Benro rather then my cheap and nasty tripod I might have another crack at it.

Was you shot taken at 400mm ?

Yeah taken at 400mm and f/8.0 ISO 400, VR on!

This was my first of 5 taken, so it turned out better than the others.

Thanks for looking Alpha.

Cheers

Scott

Hey Scott - thats pretty impressive, that lens is looking better all the time !!!

That's for those who think that the lens isn't sharp!



Nice work, Scott. Give it another shot in about ten days, as the full moon approaches, and then see what you can do.

Craig,

The moon is quite bright, and as you can see, there's little need for a tripod for this type of shot. 400mm, VR, f/8 (right in the sweet spot for the lens) and 1/400th and you're there.

Holding the camera and lens correctly is another part of the key for this too.

And never, ever, "press" the shutter relase. Always squeeze it very gently.

As we were leaving Thanh's yesterday we noticed that it was out and looking quite interesting; I suggested some settings to leigh but he wasn't interested, and we didn't have the 80-400 with us.

Stay tuned, we may do another full moon night shoot early next year (who's interested in that?).

We certainly had a lot of fun at this year's full moon event, including some evidence that the full moon does, indeed, bring out some rather strange people.

Wow, Sharp is the word. Can you show us a copy of the origonal so I can see how much you cropped .


I am now reviewing my lust list and it priority level,

was lusting a fter a sigma 70-200
but it seems it might me losing its place in the pecking order to the 80-400VR

oh well I'll just do nothing...but lust


MATT

Nice shot and handheld too! The 80-400VR is sure a GUN piece of glass. I love mine.
cheers
marco

MATT wrote:Wow, Sharp is the word. Can you show us a copy of the origonal so I can see how much you cropped .


I am now reviewing my lust list and it priority level,

was lusting a fter a sigma 70-200
but it seems it might me losing its place in the pecking order to the 80-400VR

oh well I'll just do nothing...but lust


MATT

Original added now!

Thanks for looking and I might try and get some shots of the full moon...

Cheers

Scott

Thanks for adding the uncropped, I wanted to see how close you can get,


I look forward to the full moon.


MATT