– la Diosa Selene –
Waxing Gibbous Moon as seen over Christ Lutheran Church, Pacific Beach, California, 6:31 PM, Sunday, 13 October 2024. Cropped from Canon EOS R5 II in APS-C crop mode ( I didn’t need any more black sky around this), RF 200-800mm IS USM at 800mm wide-open at f/9 hand-held at 1/250 at Auto ISO 500, -1 stop exposure compensation (LV 12.0), Radiant Photo software. bigger or camera-original 17 MP APS-C © 700 kB JPG quality 1 file.
I remember the bad old days trying to photograph the moon as a kid with my 700mm focal length f/11 (60mm diameter objective) Tasco telescope on an alt-azimuth slow-motion mount with my Minolta SRT-102 and a telescope adapter on Kodachrome 64. I got rubbish, even after half an hour setting up, while today, it’s simply point-and-shoot as I’m walking down the street. Doing the math from LV 12.0 means I’d be at 1/15 with that film rig, which is asking for motion blur. Arrrgh, things are so much better today. The RF 200-800mm IS USM is super sharp and works great.
