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GX7 - Lens for taking photos of the Moon

Started Feb 28, 2019 | Discussions thread
larsbc Forum Pro • Posts: 18,282
Re: GX7 - Lens for taking photos of the Moon

Dykie2000 wrote:

I am looking to take photos of the Moon, I have a few lenses:

Panasonic 14-43mm, 45-200mm and 100-300mm but I want to be able to take closer photos to enable me to see the surface in greater detail.

I was looking at something greater than 500mm or thinking is there a 2.0x teleconverter that would work with my current lenses?

I am new to this and would like to know your thoughts.

I photographed the moon with a 100-400 but it's a rather expensive choice if that's the only thing you want to do with it.  400 isn't really long enough, either.  This shot still required a fair amount of cropping:

As the other poster mentioned, you might be better off with an adapter and using an inexpensive manual focus fixed focal length telephoto.  A 500mm mirror (catadioptric) lens might actually work ok and could probably be found used for not much money.  Or a telescope with an adapter.

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