Among the best single moon images I've seen lately Mark! I was wondering if you,still had the 300 f2.8.
-----Original Message----- >From: Mark Roberts <[email protected]> >Subject: YAMP (yet another moon photo) > >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.
