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Moon detail
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Stephen McDonald
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Now that is really good and the detail is there. Every once in a while, someone posts a photo that raises the bar for expectations from a camera model.
logatom
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Looks very good to me. What are your major concerns that you say it's not great?
Greg
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I have never gotten such a picture of the moon with my 950 i admire.......bravo cordialement christian ps may be the moon is (plus loin de france !!!!!)
Augustin Man
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An outstanding Moon image, one of the best I've ever seen!
Congratulations my friend,
Augustin
Congratulations my friend,
Augustin
OutsideTheMatrix
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Yes, looks like a telescope image! Do you think the same can be gotten with the P900?
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this is great! imagine if you had used dynamic fine zoom ;-) or even stacked a few images, it would have been like it was taken from space!
Thanks Greg. Nothing major wrong. Its good...I like it.
Maybe not great. Thats all.
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ANAYV
Thanks christian. Keep trying.
This was a quick grab it shot.
Most times i go through camera settings first (Spot metering, mainly) before shooting the Moon, ..but never came away with as good (detail wise) a shot as this one.
Stay healthy.
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DDoram
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Wow looks good, ANAYV.
Dale
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One of my better moon shots.
None are really great..but every now and then I shoot it
This at 2000mm:
Edited in FastStone
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ANAYV
Thanks Augustin. Its all camera..nothing else.
Much better results than my previous superzoom ( FZ80)
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once upon a time, I was thinking of getting the FZ80, but if I had gotten it I would have gotten it with that Panny 1.7x TC that's recommended for it. I wonder how well that would have done- it's a somewhat brighter combo at 2000mm- but the Panny has really ugly noise that begins at fairly low ISO. That's why I didn't get it.
Thanks.
Haha...tempted to ise the digital zoom, but then only part of the moon would of been in view. Also harder to handhold past 2000mm.
Heard about stacking images, but have yet to try it.
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ANAYV
Thanks Dale
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One of my better moon shots.
None are really great..but every now and then I shoot it
This at 2000mm:
Edited in FastStone
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ANAYV
I have it..but used the Nikon 1.5TC with adapter.
Yeah..but one looses a stop using TC's. Plus O.I.S. wont be as good.
I didn't like the results. So i just lowered resolution to 9MP to gain 1700mm reach
Noise is an issue. DXO with PRIME mostly fixes it, though.
Still I'm favoring the P950.
More reach, way better EVF, and amazing O.I.S. (VR)
I lost faster AF , faster camera overall. (perhaps more CPU's inside the FZ series)
Nikon seems to cripple their Superzooms.
FZ80 is quite a few years older, yet AF is faster , internal buffer way bigger and camera never slows you down.
Nikon lags behind...still. AF better than older Nikons ..but still behind Panasonic
But their glass is always sharp..and now they finally added RAW in their superzooms!
Panasonic added it a decade ago
Pro's and cons with each camera we use.
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One thing I wanted to ask you about and perhaps you could experiment with.....what is the maximum shutter speed to use at 2000mm EFL on the moon without getting any image blur because of the Earth's rotation? We had a minor penumbral lunar eclipse last night but I am more interested in shooting a total lunar eclipse at max totality. I have seen charts that indicate you must do something like 30 sec exposures at ISO 3200 at f/8 but I dont believe you can do that without polar alignment and a tracking mount. So for total lunar eclipses at max totality, what is the longest shutter speed you can use without moon blur for untracked images at 2000mm EFL? I have tripods but no tracking mount other than the ones that came with my telescopes.
I am thinking that it would be around 0.5 sec if not less, maybe you can confirm this? On this chart, the darkest eclipses (D=0) require an exposure time of 2 min at ISO 800 and f/8 (which is equivalent to 30 sec at ISO 3200.)
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Yes indeed, thats why I own so many cameras, it's hard to relegate oneself to just one when each has its own unique pros and cons. Luckily Nikon has decided to uncripple the P950 from at least some of the features the P line should have always had.I have it..but used the Nikon 1.5TC with adapter.
Yeah..but one looses a stop using TC's. Plus O.I.S. wont be as good.
I didn't like the results. So i just lowered resolution to 9MP to gain 1700mm reach
Noise is an issue. DXO with PRIME mostly fixes it, though.
Still I'm favoring the P950.
More reach, way better EVF, and amazing O.I.S. (VR)
I lost faster AF , faster camera overall. (perhaps more CPU's inside the FZ series)
Nikon seems to cripple their Superzooms.
FZ80 is quite a few years older, yet AF is faster , internal buffer way bigger and camera never slows you down.
Nikon lags behind...still. AF better than older Nikons ..but still behind Panasonic
But their glass is always sharp..and now they finally added RAW in their superzooms!
Panasonic added it a decade ago
Pro's and cons with each camera we use.
Stay healthy
ANAYV
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
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ratfugel
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Forgive me for asking but where did you find this particular moon?
Doesn't look a bit like ours.
(P900 shot. Yet to have a go with my P950)
rat
Afternoon shot hand held. Sky darkened as it conflicted colourwise.
Doesn't look a bit like ours.
(P900 shot. Yet to have a go with my P950)
rat
Afternoon shot hand held. Sky darkened as it conflicted colourwise.
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