Half Moon at 560mm (now with AF)

NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
edited July 5, 2006 in Landscapes
I temporarily taped the pins on my 1.4 TC to see if it can gets my 30D's AF working on 100-400. Well, it did :): (and I removed the tape to avoid AF grind).

Anyway - here is Half Moon Over SoCal, July 3, 2006.
I also went for some unnatural, but IMHO interesting angle.

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Hope you guys like it! :wink

Cheers! :1drink
"May the f/stop be with you!"

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  • cwphotoscwphotos Registered Users Posts: 763 Major grins
    edited July 4, 2006
    very nice Nik. I need some long glass ojne of these days. clap.gif
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 4, 2006
    Thanks, Dean!
    cwphotos wrote:
    very nice Nik. I need some long glass one of these days. clap.gif

    Yeah, me too :-) One of them 600mm :-)

    Cheers! 1drink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • THE TOUCHTHE TOUCH Registered Users Posts: 535 Major grins
    edited July 4, 2006
    Great shot Nik!thumb.gif
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  • saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
    edited July 4, 2006
    You got me Nik! For a moment it threw me to see the same moon I saw last night cut in half horizontally!!! Great shot...my lenses aren't long enought...I just appreciated the view last night while watching fireworks from my balcony. :D
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 4, 2006
    Thanks, Kevin!
    THE TOUCH wrote:
    Great shot Nik!thumb.gif

    I need to go with lower ISO, though, 1600 is a bit too noisy..

    However, I tried it last night from the tripod (boorowed a collar:-) and found it insanely difficult to focus manually.ne_nau.gif I got a rather clear, low-noise shot at ISO100, f/10 at /10th (tripod, MLU, remote shutter), but it was very soft... :cry
    And the moon was already gone so I could not take another one.. Oh well, maybe tonight, after the fireworks :-)
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 4, 2006
    Thank you!
    saurora wrote:
    You got me Nik! For a moment it threw me to see the same moon I saw last night cut in half horizontally!!! Great shot...my lenses aren't long enought...I just appreciated the view last night while watching fireworks from my balcony. :D

    You guys get fireworks on 3d, too? Nice thumb.gif
    Oh well, I need to learn a better focusing in manual, I guess rolleyes1.gif

    Have a great 4th! clap.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • USAIRUSAIR Registered Users Posts: 2,646 Major grins
    edited July 4, 2006
    Great shot Nik nice layout too.

    We had fireworks on the 30th,1st,2nd,3rd, and now on the 4th
    its raining cats and dogs now but i but I bet some hillbilly (I included myself) will figure a way to shoot a few more off today. :D

    I love this holiday iloveyou.gif

    Thanks
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 4, 2006
    Heyya Fred!
    USAIR wrote:
    Great shot Nik nice layout too.

    We had fireworks on the 30th,1st,2nd,3rd, and now on the 4th
    its raining cats and dogs now but i but I bet some hillbilly (I included myself) will figure a way to shoot a few more off today. :D

    I love this holiday iloveyou.gif

    Thanks
    Fred

    Thanks, glad you like it!

    In our little place we only get them on 4th itself ne_nau.gif

    However, it comes with the clear blue skies and low 90ies. It's this weather that you makes you very glad you paid all those $$$ to maintain your own swimming pool... mwink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • THE TOUCHTHE TOUCH Registered Users Posts: 535 Major grins
    edited July 4, 2006
    Nikolai wrote:
    Thanks, glad you like it!

    In our little place we only get them on 4th itself ne_nau.gif

    However, it comes with the clear blue skies and low 90ies. It's this weather that you makes you very glad you paid all those $$$ to maintain your own swimming pool... mwink.gif

    Must be nice! :D I gotta get out of this desert!!!:cry (that's not tears...it's sweat!) HEHE.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 4, 2006
    Dude, you don't say...
    THE TOUCH wrote:
    Must be nice! :D I gotta get out of this desert!!!:cry (that's not tears...it's sweat!) HEHE.

    You and Kendall (he's in Mojave) must be getting 110+ these days..
    I mean, I like warm weather, but not that warm ne_nau.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • THE TOUCHTHE TOUCH Registered Users Posts: 535 Major grins
    edited July 4, 2006
    Nikolai wrote:
    You and Kendall (he's in Mojave) must be getting 110+ these days..
    I mean, I like warm weather, but not that warm ne_nau.gif

    Agreed! I'm really looking at relocating - this is getting old very fast. I'm looking for a new position but I think we're stuck here another year until my wife finishes school.

    Oh well.:cry :cry :cry
    Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein :bash

    - Kevin
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited July 4, 2006
    Super job, Nik, the whole thing looks great. thumb.gif
    Sid.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 4, 2006
    Thanks, Sid!
    wxwax wrote:
    Super job, Nik, the whole thing looks great. thumb.gif

    I wish I could do better (and I hope I will), but this is but best result for now.

    In fact, I think I will reattach the tape, but will focus manually. This way I will get the focus confirmation signal (beep/rect flash) and won't grind the AF gear to the gound...

    Got any BBQ today? mwink.gif

    Cheerio! 1drink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • THE TOUCHTHE TOUCH Registered Users Posts: 535 Major grins
    edited July 4, 2006
    Nikolai wrote:
    In fact, I think I will reattach the tape, but will focus manually. This way I will get the focus confirmation signal (beep/rect flash) and won't grind the AF gear to the gound...

    That's a great idea! Of coarse, you knew that already!:D
    Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein :bash

    - Kevin
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 4, 2006
    Thanks, Kevin!
    THE TOUCH wrote:
    That's a great idea! Of coarse, you knew that already!:D

    I wonder why I didn't think of this in the first place ne_nau.gif Focusing manually at the object located at 200,000+ miles is not an easy task, and for some reason I could never focus hyperfocally with this lens (even though I made myself a very cool busines-card sized cheatsheet of hyperfocal distances for the most common focal f/stops and distances:

    79572762-L.jpg

    Anyway, glad you liked the idea (I mean tape + manual). And, seriously, putting the tape on second time was like hitting the spacebar - very easy, you can't miss it :-)

    Cheers! 1drink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 5, 2006
    Another attempt
    Now with the tripod (although very lame-entry-level tripod, I do need to get a better one :bash).

    ISO100, f/11 at 1/5th. TC with taped pins, focused manually, used AF to confirm the focus.
    Regardless of the MLU, the whole rig (30D + 100-400 + TC) is too heavy for the tripod, hence the image is way too soft. :cry
    Although much less noisy/grainy than the previous version.:D

    Anyways, for what it's worth...ne_nau.gif

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    Nikolai wrote:
    Half Moon Over SoCal, July 3, 2006.

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    "May the f/stop be with you!"
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