6500fd shoot MOON, anyone??

[mactreouser]

Hi,

Do anyone Shoot the Moon with 6500fd ???
Mind to show your picts???
What's your configuration???

[wiLLy-LucifeR]

yup, i have one. taken quite some time ago.



u can look at the setttings thru' the exif info.

[mactreouser]

Yo bro..Thanks for sharing ... haa.. nice la..
erm...seems 300mm zoom not that close up enough ya?!haa...but still wonderful...any touch up on it??need to learn some skil/tips to make it sharp la..

Hey,6500fd is the only cam you got?

p/s:Since 6500fd doesn't have the hot-shoe, so any external flash are you using now?need recommendation!!

[felixcat8888]

Originally Posted by mactreouser Yo bro..Thanks for sharing ... haa.. nice la.. erm...seems 300mm zoom not that close up enough ya?!haa...but still wonderful...any touch up on it??need to learn some skil/tips to make it sharp la.. Hey,6500fd is the only cam you got? p/s:Since 6500fd doesn't have the hot-shoe, so any external flash are you using now?need recommendation!!

I use the Sunblitz Ai829 Twin Flash as my external flash.

[thengz]

Originally Posted by mactreouser Hi, Do anyone Shoot the Moon with 6500fd ??? Mind to show your picts??? What's your configuration???

Yeah, I shot the moon the other time I played Hearts with my friends. Collected all the Hearts as well as the queen of spades. Not much configuration to do. Just get all the hearts and queen of spades can liao. The trick is, you pretend to play as if you have lousy cards, by the time they find out you're trying to shoot the moon, its too late!

[liionel]

Originally Posted by felixcat8888 I use the Sunblitz Ai829 Twin Flash as my external flash.

slave flash is it? how much does it go for?

[mactreouser]

Originally Posted by liionel slave flash is it? how much does it go for?

Ya,s'ld be around SD75

[Clockunder]

Generally, try not to blow out the highlights so that the details are captured and the moon picture can be post-processed with adjustments in the exposure and gamma in Photoshop CS2 "exposure".

There are some tiny greyish dots/artifacts (random noise) in the dark sky area in the original pictures and they're made to "vanish" when I increase the gamma of the picture. (i.e. darken the shadows as the histogram is shifted left wards so that the near-black noise pixels are darkened to blend into the dark sky).

From my own experience, the picture is better and easier to post-process when use the 2x optical zoom than to shoot without optical zoom or in RAW.

In addition, the moon looks more 3-D in the picture when it's not full.

For a bight full moon in a clear sky, try to bracket around :
1/125-1/250-1/500
F/5.6
ISO 100.

Below : 1/250, F/5.6, ISO 100



If the sky is not extremely clear or the moon is not that full or both, then expose more.

Below : 1/125, F/5.6, ISO 100



Different white balances used below : Auto, Daylight and Fluorescent (which gives you a red cast since it assumes that the light is more green and therefore increase the red and reduces any blue/green). (For the pictures below, I didn't use the gamma adjustment and so there are some artifacts seen the the adjacent areas around the moon).

Below : Auto WB


Below : Daylight WB


Below : Fluorescent WB




(p.s. all the pictures above were taken handheld ..........since I can handhold as long as the shutter speed is faster than 1/actual focal length. At max. actual focal length, it's only 66.7mm and so I can hand hold if it's 1/125 or faster. 1/80 is sometimes a bit susceptible to handshake blur for me).

[mactreouser]

Clockunder,

wow..awesome man...you are really totally understand the power of 6500fd and fully utilize it!!cool..bro..handheld somemore..

[jeffreyk]

This is what I get from a 734mm equivalent lens (H2 + 1.7 TC)

Taken on 22 Oct 2007