[Leica] IMG: Gibbous moon

[grduprey at mchsi.com]

Nice moon photo Peter.  I will be out in the morning to shoot the Blood Moon.  I will be using my Nikon D4 and 400/2.8, and maybe the TC if needed.

Gene

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Klein" <pklein at threshinc.com>
To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org>, olympus at thomasclausen.net, leicareflex at freelists.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 7, 2014 5:07:50 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: [Leica] IMG:  Gibbous moon

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Telescope?  I ain't got no steenkin' telescope. This was taken with a 
1970s-vintage Vivitar 300/5.5 and a Tokina teleconverter on a 
tripod-mounted Oly E-M5, so equivalent full-frame focal length is 
1200mm.  The posted picture is about 64% of the frame by linear 
measurement, or 41% by area.

There was a thin haze in the air, but this being the Pacific Northwest, 
I decided to seize the opportunity of a relatively clear night anyway. 
The original image was a bit soft at 1:1.  I extracted the green 
channel*,  ran it through Focus Magic, which really brought out the 
details, then some conventional rotation, curves and contrast enhancement.

--Peter, returning to the LEM

* Drastically reduces CA-related softness, and the green channel has 2x 
more pixels than the others. This was visibly more effective than just 
using Capture One's "color fringing" compensation.

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