Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for looking, Philippe. Actually the lens isn't too heavy. The difficult part is finding the moon in the viewfinder and being steady enough to center the photo. I took three shots. The other two, while still in the frame, were barely there. Best Regards, Len On Dec 16, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Philippe AMARD wrote: > Can't see the man there, > but this is an excellent picture by a fine photog if you were > shooting that heavy lens handheld. > Thanks for sharing. > Phx > > > > Leonard Taupier wrote: > >> Thanks to Nathan for taking his Moon photo on the day it was >> closest to Earth and as it's largest size as viewed. I missed the >> day but thanks to Nathan's shot I was able to catch it the >> following night. >> >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/Nikon/ >> Biggest_Moon.jpg.html> >> >> or >> >> http://tinyurl.com/6ag6fa >> >> Shot with the Nikon D300 and the Nikon 1000mm f11 mirror lens. >> >> This was a very quick hand held shot where I guessed at the >> exposure of 1/2500 sec at ISO 800. >> If you look at the EXIF data it's not correct as I forgot to set >> the manual lens setting in the camera menu. >> It's also not cropped to give you an idea as to what a 1500mm >> lens view would be on a FF or film camera. >> >> Len >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information