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RE: One photo every day: Full moon (249/365)
This looks good! The full moon was last night? I just had missed it as I had taken the moon photo one day too early.
As small details on photography, I love how you can see the small advantage of cropped sensor in the photo. With 300mm focal length you were able to get "closer" to the moon than I got with my camera.
However as I had used lower ISO, I had less noise in the photo.
Your moon photo still looks really good :)
I'll have to look for the next full moon to get my own full moon photo..
Thanks!
Made a quick check. According to the calendar, the full moon is tonight, so there's still time.
I wonder if I should follow @dromzz's advice and try again. Clouds be damned. ;)
It may be the 6D has a newer and more advanced sensor chip than my 550D in addition to being full-frame. Yes, (after checking,) it appears that in those 2 years Canon went from Digic 4 to Digic 5+, and that at least means much less noise even with higher ISO sensitivity.
I like your photo too btw.
I'm very much thinking of renting or loaning a 600mm lens just to try how well it fares.
It looks promising out there. I just came from skiing on Lake Vesijärvi. Not a cloud in sight.
Have you any experience with these extenders? For example with a Canon 2X extender? I've been thinking if one of those could be a handy tool to get better range for my existing lenses instead of buying bigger ones.
In my photos I managed to use iso 100, as I was using a slow shutter speed and a tripod :)
I've only used macro extenders in school. I've heard the range extenders negatively affect exposure so I've kept my hands off them. ;)
What shutter speed did you use? The moon moves relatively slow, but I'm a bit iffy about using slower than 1/100s, because even on the tripod it still has quite a lot vibrations when extended at 300mm. Especially if it's even the least bit windy.
But I'm actually going out right now to try again. Wish me luck.
If I've understood right, if you have a 2X range extender it also doubles the aperture, so with a 300mm f/4 you would basically have 600mm f/8.
I could try one if I could test it for free, but wouldn't invest a lot of money on a extender without testing.
On the most successful photo I had 1/15, ISO 100 and aperture at f/20. I was taking the photo on balcony so with glasses (and opened up one of the windows to get the photo) so I didn't think of the wind.. or even of the moons movement.
Good luck :)
Edit: Damn it was cloudy in here, couldn't get any good photos.
I wonder what it'd be like to shoot through a 600mm lens with a 2x extender...
f/20 could be a bit overkill. The sweet spot in terms of sharpness of almost any lens is usually at f/8 to f/11, and most lenses can focus the moon with those, so if the theory is right, you should be able to use much faster exposure times. I'm fairly certain that the moon does travel quite a long distance in 1/15s. However negligible it may be.
Right now I'm pre-processing my photos, so I'll be back when I've fully edited them.
Btw. It looked like the full moon was last night (maybe in the morning hours), because as I was shooting now, the right side of the moon had started to go into shadow.