Bright moon from the new patio

Posted on September 27, 2007
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Near full moon snapped from new patio

A very bright, near-full moon was visible as I rose at 6:00 this morning, so I took the Lumix DCS FZ50, mounted on a tripod, out on the new patio. I was hoping that at 420mm it would capture some crater detail, but no luck in auto-exposure mode. Tomorrow I’ll see if I can do manual exposure… maybe with a Nikon…

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  1. www.gulker.com » Blog Archive » The moon redux on September 28th, 2007 9:07 am

    […] Sure enough, setting the exposure manually allowed us to get this snap this morning of the near-full moon, showing crater detail this time (unlike yesterday), once again from a corner of the new patio. I’m guessing the Lumix’ lens has similar quality, but I’d have had to dig out its manual to figure out how to get into manual exposure mode - something I knew how to do on the Nikon. Nikon D50 with 70-300mm f4 - 5.6 AF ED Nikkor; 300 (420)mm, 160th second at f5.6. Nikon’s ED lenses are sharp, too… […]

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