[Leica] Moon & Jupiter with 135mm Apo-Telyt-M

[Jay Burleson]

Looks fantastic, Paul!

Jay

On 3/22/2016 3:17 PM, Paul Roark wrote:
> There was a nice full (or close to it) moon last night.  So, I was curious
> how the 135mm Leica Apo-Telyt would do when shooting it with the Sony.  The
> result, cropped to show just the moon at 100%, is here:
>
> http://www.paulroark.com/Moon-at-100pc_DSC0769-1000iso-1000th-f45.jpg
>
> This was taken hand held with the Sony a7rii at 1/1000 second, IS enabled,
> 1000 iso, and f/4.5.
>
> There were some small, light clouds drifting by, and Jupiter was rather
> prominent in the sky just above the moon.  So I wondered if I could make
> something out of this combination.  See the shot I just put on my web home
> page here:
>
> http://www.paulroark.com/
>
> The clouds were quite a bit darker than the moon.  They needed 1/15 of a
> second exposure.  So, I was able to catch both the moon and the clouds by
> setting the speed to 1/125 and using the auto bracketing set to cover plus
> and minus 3 stops.
>
> The frame is cropped to an 8x10 ratio with pixel dimensions 5303x4243.
>
> You might be interested to see what viewers of a very large print might see
> if they focus carefully on Jupiter and the dark night sky around it.  Here
> is the 100% view of that part of the file:
>
> http://www.paulroark.com/Jupiter-3-21-2016-at-100pc.jpg
>
> I'm having my fun with this new Lecia M lens.
>
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com