Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/16

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: The Biggest Moon, 1 day late.
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue Dec 16 10:08:21 2008
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On Dec 16, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Leonard Taupier wrote:

> Steve,
>
> Thanks for the compliment. I've taken a lot of moon photos but this  
> one was easy with no work involved. It's tougher with shorter lenses  
> and extenders.


I just looked again, it's like...


WOW


Steve


>
>
> Len
>
>
> On Dec 16, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Steve Barbour wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 16, 2008, at 9:52 AM, 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.
>>
>>
>> in spite of and considering... a very, very impressive image Leonard,
>>
>>
>> thanks, Steve
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Len
>>>
>>>
>>>
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In reply to: Message from len-001 at verizon.net (Leonard Taupier) ([Leica] IMG: The Biggest Moon, 1 day late.)
Message from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] IMG: The Biggest Moon, 1 day late.)
Message from len-001 at verizon.net (Leonard Taupier) ([Leica] IMG: The Biggest Moon, 1 day late.)