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Subject: [Leica] IMG: The Biggest Moon, 1 day late.
From: len-001 at verizon.net (Leonard Taupier)
Date: Tue Dec 16 09:23:58 2008
References: <17D43DA5-09BE-4744-A515-7507DD3CD8C5@verizon.net> <4947E1C9.1060008@tele2.fr>

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
>>
>>
>>
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Replies: Reply from philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD) ([Leica] IMG: The Biggest Moon, 1 day late.)
In reply to: Message from len-001 at verizon.net (Leonard Taupier) ([Leica] IMG: The Biggest Moon, 1 day late.)
Message from philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD) ([Leica] IMG: The Biggest Moon, 1 day late.)