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Were you shooting tripod? Not gonna get the sharpest shots at 2.8.

To be honest you'll never got an amazingly sharp shot unless you shoot on a tripod that accounts for the moon-shift. An astrology tripod usually does the job.

But yeah, f/2.8 made it a little over-exposed too.

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To be honest you'll never got an amazingly sharp shot unless you shoot on a tripod that accounts for the moon-shift. An astrology tripod usually does the job.

You're absolutely right on the astrology tripod thing, I've never been satisfied about any of my moon shots no matter what settings I use, it may be also because I don't' have a longer telephoto lens than 300mm (eq).

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Yeap, I was using tripod...and remote switch. Although the tripod was on soft surface (carpet), I guess I'll have to be extra careful next time :)

I was shooting in Aperture priority mode and have a whole range of f stops. I have overexposure bias set to +0.2, do you think it could matter this much? It was left there from the previous shoot...

Anyway, here's

F/5.0

1/50 sec

moon01brs5.jpg

P.S. Please always critique my shots whenever possible guys ;) I appreciate it.

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These 2 are from the trip I just got back from with my good friend. Yes, we actually climbed a small mountain on these bikes and these pics are from the top. This was a VERY dreary, cold day, so ya, I like to keep the sky gray ;) This was a 2.5 day long trip where we did over 1300kms. Yes, we were very sore after, and still are a bit. My bike is in pic 1. It's a 2006 Suzuki Boulevard M50. My friend's is in pic 2, it's the same bike but 2007.

Camera: Nikon F80 (film, these pics are scanned from my prints)

Lens: 50mm f1.8 Nikkor

Sorry, can't remember other settings, I always just kind of do them without thinking.

post-26264-1211356747_thumb.jpg

post-26264-1211356765_thumb.jpg

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When taking a pic of the moon you have to remember that you need to do a fast exposure not a slow one. With stars you can do a slow exposure.

Try settings like

1/160s

F12

ISO 800

If you have a 200 or a 300 zoom put a 1.4 on it and that is close to get a decent moon shot. Of course a used telescope with motor and a 20$ camera adapter would be much much better.

Looking on craigslist a decent used telescope can be had for about 200$ plus a 20$ adapter and you are good to go to astrophotography.

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