2/3 moon

morrisphotography2003

Ok I am trying to get used to my new glass, phoenix 650-1300 w/ 2x adaptor. So I decided to take it out for a little moon shooting to see how it handles, and I liked what I got so here it is.
ISO 200
Ex. time 0.01s (1/100)
Focal length (just about 1600mm)

yes this was taken with the use of my tripod and needed very minor cropping with minimal curves adj.

Enjoy and tell me what you think - Bob

prity goldfish

i like how it turned out too!! new glass is always fun and exciting!

morrisphotography2003

thank you. Any time I get new toys for the camera I love to take them to the sky to see how they are going to handle with shooting the moon. Counting down to the next full moon - Bob.

prity goldfish wrote:

i like how it turned out too!! new glass is always fun and exciting!

Phil U.

Impressive! I viewed the "large" version - you might want to link to that one so everyone can see more of the detail.

I'm waiting for the full moon too so I can point my new toy at it

morrisphotography2003

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Phil U. wrote:

Impressive! I viewed the "large" version - you might want to link to that one so everyone can see more of the detail.

I'm waiting for the full moon too so I can point my new toy at it

kdog

Here's mine from last night. Taken with a Canon 20D, 100-400 tele, TC1.4x.
Sized-down for the web.



Might be my best ever, now that I think about it.

Nikolai

This is awesome!

kdog wrote:

Here's mine from last night. Taken with a Canon 20D, 100-400 tele, TC1.4x.
Sized-down for the web.
Might be my best ever, now that I think about it.

If you don't mind sharing - what were the other shot parameters (iso, f/stop, speed)? What kind of post did you apply?
Thanks!

PS
Man, I need that TC...

kdog

Thanks, Nikolai! F11, 1/30s, ISO100, manual focus (cause of the TC), MLU, remote shutter release, crappy tripod which I still need to replace. PS/CS2 parameters were autolevels, USM sharpening of course, and the thing that really brought it to life was adjusting the "highlights" slider on the shadows/highlights panel. That was the best out of a dozen shots or more. I'm hoping I'll get more consistency when I get my tripod situation squared a way.

-joel

Nikolai

Joel,

kdog wrote:

Thanks, Nikolai! F11, 1/30s, ISO100, manual focus (cause of the TC), MLU, remote shutter release, crappy tripod which I still need to replace. PS/CS2 parameters were autolevels, USM sharpening of course, and the thing that really brought it to life was adjusting the "highlights" slider on the shadows/highlights panel. That was the best out of a dozen shots or more. I'm hoping I'll get more consistency when I get my tripod situation squared a way.

-joel

Thanks for the info!
You got me confused: I thought TC1.4 provides for AF to work fine. Or is it because you pushed it to f/11 and AF with TC works only under f/8 or smth like that?

Withing the same lines: any particular reason why "f/11 1/30s" and not, say, "f/5.6 1/120s"?

kdog

My pleasure, Nikolai. On the 20D with the 100-400 and TC, autofocus is completely disabled. You can tape three pins to disable the disable (sic). However, I've heard mixed results with this, so I haven't bothered to try. I figure if it worked well, Canon wouldn't have disabled it.

You lose a stop with the TC, so f8 is wide open. I tried both f8 and f11, and f11 definitely seemed to give better results. Makes sense I guess. Most lenses don't perform at their best wide open.

-joel

Nikolai

Joel,

kdog wrote:

My pleasure, Nikolai. On the 20D with the 100-400 and TC, autofocus is completely disabled. You can tape three pins to disable the disable (sic). However, I've heard mixed results with this, so I haven't bothered to try. I figure if it worked well, Canon wouldn't have disabled it.

You lose a stop with the TC, so f8 is wide open. I tried both f8 and f11, and f11 definitely seemed to give better results. Makes sense I guess. Most lenses don't perform at their best wide open.

-joel

Thank you very much for the details. I never heard of taping pins on TC/lens before. But since I remember something about AF working on TC only *below* f/8 it kinda all fals in one bucket, one way or another..

And yes, since f/8 becomes wide open, it does make perfect sense to stop it down to f/11...

Darn, I was so counting AF would work on TC1.4 + 100-400 combo.. TC is on my short list of things to get.

Thanks again!

Nikolai

Taping TC pins
Found some interesting readings on FM:
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic2/298899
http://www.fredmiranda.com/TipsPage/

HTH