[Leica] IMG: Gibbous moon

[Mark Rabiner]

When you click on it the incurably sharp and larger moon starts veering off
I think towards the planet Earth!
Very impressive I can see with the haze you'd leave it low contrast but if
it was me I'd just it up a bit.


On 10/7/14 7:33 PM, "Gene duprey" <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote:

> 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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> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/15285876780/in/photostream/lightbo
> x/>
> 
> 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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