Owl in Flight with GH3 and 100-300mm

grumpyolderman wrote:

JamieTux wrote:

It's pretty sharp anyway, I've got a handheld shot of the moon on the OM-D (with no e-shutter) that looks amazing - of course I have tripod mounted e-shutter shots of the moon too - taken from the luxury of an arm chair using LUMIX LINK

I agree, an amazing shot to be proud off. I was more responding to the other guys...It is very tricky to get the long focal length sharp, even with image stabilisation. I just got myself a "monster" of a lens, a Pentacon 300mm F4, see how that goes, see if I can lift it!

Sorry I meant the lens, not my owl shot - but thank you
I loved the Nikon 300mm f4 - if the Pentax is similar you'll be very impressed.

How do you take shots of the moon from our armchair, have you got a mount with sideral drive? The moon goes through my viewfinder in a minute, I would love to get a mount for at least 2-3 min exposures (not hte moon, obviously).

I was playing more than anything I actually lined up ahead of where the moon was going - but I'm sure it take a few minutes to go through - but I've never timed it!
As for mounts - I bout my father an AstroTrac for his 60th, a couple of years ago (I asked advice from a Sony forum member, Nordjsterm I think is how you spell it) and Dad loves it - he thinks it's accurate enough for about a 5 minute exposure, then he resets and takes the next - then stacks at the end - here's a link to the results he gets with that http://www.t2landscapes.co.uk/p983829945

I'm sure he'd recommend it if you asked him.

He recently bought a ridiculously stable Arca Swiss head - he think that's made quite a difference too - but none of the photos on the gallery are using that yet.

JL