The Moon tonight

I shot these in my back yard with my D70 and Sigma 28-300mm lens.Just wanted to share with all of you.I am very happy with this lens.Minor usm amd 100% crop.



It was getting very low in this shot



This was taken a couple of weeks ago



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2 Eyes,1 Camera,+ Photoshop C.S. =Anything you can dream up...Nikon D70. Sigma 28-300mm.

No noise filter was used and iso 200 setting.

iceman17 said:

I shot these in my back yard with my D70 and Sigma 28-300mm
lens.Just wanted to share with all of you.I am very happy with this
lens.Minor usm amd 100% crop.



It was getting very low in this shot



This was taken a couple of weeks ago



....ice
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2 Eyes,1 Camera,+ Photoshop C.S. =Anything you can dream up...Nikon
D70. Sigma 28-300mm.

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2 Eyes,1 Camera,+ Photoshop C.S. =Anything you can dream up...Nikon D70. Sigma 28-300mm.

Very nice.

I've been wanting to try to shoot the moon with my new Sigma 50-500 (I Looove this lens),
but it's been cloudy every night.
What settings did you use?

D70, 70-300mm F4-5.6 (@300mm), cropped, mildly sharpened, 1/160 sec at f5.6 @ ISO 200 - 10:30pm PST.

Nices shots

I also have the Sigma 28-300 lens. It's a great alround lens.

What Shutterspeed and Apparture did you use?

Havn't done many lately but here's mine, they seem to be getting worse comapred to that first god shot I posted lol but oh well.

Hi Rob ,shutter was 1/20 sec and app was f6.3 thanks also used spot meter...ice

Rob G. said:

Nices shots

I also have the Sigma 28-300 lens. It's a great alround lens.

What Shutterspeed and Apparture did you use?

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Wow thats nicw,telescope?..ice

Kalus said:

Havn't done many lately but here's mine, they seem to be getting
worse comapred to that first god shot I posted lol but oh well.

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2 Eyes,1 Camera,+ Photoshop C.S. =Anything you can dream up...Nikon D70. Sigma 28-300mm.

Yeah a 114mm reflector (900mm focal length) only a cheap thing and no tracking mount but I still get decent shots. THe adaptor i have has a 2x barlow on it so I actually get an 1800mm image however there is slight motion blur at that length from the slow shutter speed

iceman17 said:

Kalus said:

Havn't done many lately but here's mine, they seem to be getting
worse comapred to that first god shot I posted lol but oh well.

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D70. Sigma 28-300mm.

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Hi.

I currently have a D70, kit lens, and Sigma 70-300MM Macro Super II lens, and would like to start taking some moon shots, my question is this:

Would it be enough to get a spotting scope (20x or so). I would like to be able to use it for birdwatching as well. I have a VERY old and cheap, 60mm refractor (that's all I remember, bought it around 15 years ago..), but I would need to get the T-adaptor and anything else required to hook up the D70 to it. Does the size of the eyepiece connector make a difference? I believe the one on my old telescope is 1".

Got any advice on settings for moon shots?

Thanks!

Kalus said:

iceman17 said:

Kalus said:

Havn't done many lately but here's mine, they seem to be getting
worse comapred to that first god shot I posted lol but oh well.

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D70. Sigma 28-300mm.

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Well with a spotting scope you'd still need an adaptor to connect the D70 to it so it wouldn't really matter.

The size of the eyepeice but more sothe brand of the telescope i'd say is what makes a difference as my reflector is a tasco but if I just got a normal t-adaptor nad connected it while it would fit in the telescope I wouldn't be able to focus since the tasco t-adatpor I have has a barlow lens on it I tried taking the barlow f so I only had a 900mm focal length not 1800 and I couldn't pull out enough to get anyhing in focus even if the adaptor wasn't all the way into the eyepeice holder so if it's a named telescope you'd have to look for a t-adaptor from them unless another brand specefies it will work on it etc.

Just make sure you use as fast a shutter speed as you can for moon shots. With my Sigma I usually shoot at F11 and ISO 400 and around 1/320th shutter speed (depending how much of the moon is out ofcourse). I use to shoot around 1/160 at 200 but found at ISO 400 you couldn't really notice anymore noise and the images were ever so slightly sharper from the increased shutter speed atleast I put it down to the shutter speed since I ruled everything else out.

But for a full moon the Sunny F16 rule or the same rule but using F11 usually works well and adjust the shutter speed accordingly depending on how much of the moon is out. I stay away from shooting wide open using an even faster shutter speed cos I find the images are too soft when open much past F8 which just negates having the faster shutter speed.

Also try spot metering on the moon, I find that usually gives me the settings i'd use manually anyway when shooting with the Sigma. And I also always use autofocus with the sigma as the image is too small to accurately do manually and i find I never have a problem with autofocusing it anyway.

dhalgren said:

I currently have a D70, kit lens, and Sigma 70-300MM Macro Super II
lens, and would like to start taking some moon shots, my question
is this:

Would it be enough to get a spotting scope (20x or so). I would
like to be able to use it for birdwatching as well. I have a VERY
old and cheap, 60mm refractor (that's all I remember, bought it
around 15 years ago..), but I would need to get the T-adaptor and
anything else required to hook up the D70 to it. Does the size of
the eyepiece connector make a difference? I believe the one on my
old telescope is 1".

Got any advice on settings for moon shots?

Thanks!

Kalus said:

iceman17 said:

Kalus said:

Havn't done many lately but here's mine, they seem to be getting
worse comapred to that first god shot I posted lol but oh well.

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2 Eyes,1 Camera,+ Photoshop C.S. =Anything you can dream up...Nikon
D70. Sigma 28-300mm.

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