Nice! It's a keeper. On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > I had to have a go at getting a shot of the lunar eclipse. This one > seems to bee the best, though I haven't closely examined all of them > yet. > > http://www.robertstech.com/temp/redmoon.jpg > > Shot with the K-5 and FA*300/2.8 (so this is cropped quite a bit). One > half second exposure at f/6.7, ISO 1600 (with mirror pre-fire). I > tried a teleconverter but the resultant vibration enhancement just > revealed the inadequacy of my ball head for this application — > half-second exposures at these focal lengths require a gimbal mount of > some kind. Atomospheric haze was a problem, too: post processing was a > battle between sharpening and noise reduction with the inevitable > unsatisfactory compromise. Stiil, I think the result isn't too bad for > someone who has almost no experience with this kind of photography. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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