New moon with the Beast

My Beast, a Sigma 150-600 Sports, is mint, but mostly spends its days in a ThinkTank Glass Limo, a fantastic backpack made for a single lens, with a camera, or without.

Anyway, I took some moon shots with it, the other night, using a Nikon 1 V2 and an old D600, together with the TC-1401.


Cropped, D600 + TC-1401


Nikon 1 V2, no crop.

To me, the winner is the V2, as the TC-1401 enlarges the optical issues the lens has at infinity!

Maybe it is time to fine-tune the Beast!

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That's a nearly full moon. A new moon is invisible or just a thin crescent!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/new moon

ishwanu said:

That's a nearly full moon. A new moon is invisible or just a thin crescent!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/new moon

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I planned to write A New Shot of a Moon with the Beast!

Somehow I contracted the text to become gibberish!

Nice shots! I like both, but I'm partial towards the N1 for obvious reasons. LOL

La luna, la luna! La bella luna!

Tord S Eriksson said:

My Beast, a Sigma 150-600 Sports, is mint, but mostly spends its days in a ThinkTank Glass Limo, a fantastic backpack made for a single lens, with a camera, or without.

Anyway, I took some moon shots with it, the other night, using a Nikon 1 V2 and an old D600, together with the TC-1401.


Cropped, D600 + TC-1401


Nikon 1 V2, no crop.

To me, the winner is the V2, as the TC-1401 enlarges the optical issues the lens has at infinity!

Maybe it is time to fine-tune the Beast!

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LOL...I think we took the same moon; maybe few hours apart....


Near Full Moon, J5 with Sigma 100-400mm

PTMcH said:

Tord S Eriksson said:

My Beast, a Sigma 150-600 Sports, is mint, but mostly spends its days in a ThinkTank Glass Limo, a fantastic backpack made for a single lens, with a camera, or without.

Anyway, I took some moon shots with it, the other night, using a Nikon 1 V2 and an old D600, together with the TC-1401.


Cropped, D600 + TC-1401


Nikon 1 V2, no crop.

To me, the winner is the V2, as the TC-1401 enlarges the optical issues the lens has at infinity!

Maybe it is time to fine-tune the Beast!

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LOL...I think we took the same moon; maybe few hours apart....


Near Full Moon, J5 with Sigma 100-400mm

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That's pretty cool! Two moons are better than one, isn't it? At any rate, it's a good way to stay connected with other N-1ers around the world.

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misterodd said:

PTMcH said:

Tord S Eriksson said:

My Beast, a Sigma 150-600 Sports, is mint, but mostly spends its days in a ThinkTank Glass Limo, a fantastic backpack made for a single lens, with a camera, or without.

Anyway, I took some moon shots with it, the other night, using a Nikon 1 V2 and an old D600, together with the TC-1401.


Cropped, D600 + TC-1401


Nikon 1 V2, no crop.

To me, the winner is the V2, as the TC-1401 enlarges the optical issues the lens has at infinity!

Maybe it is time to fine-tune the Beast!

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LOL...I think we took the same moon; maybe few hours apart....


Near Full Moon, J5 with Sigma 100-400mm

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That's pretty cool! Two moons are better than one, isn't it? At any rate, it's a good way to stay connected with other N-1ers around the world.

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A bit scary was tonight's shot of a slowly vanishing blue moon, J5 (heavily cropped):


That AF-S 70-200/4G is amazing!


These were both shot with a Sigma TC-1401 attached!

There are no tricks, just DxO PL 6 was used like I always do.

In my eyes, the result was better than my shots with the Sigma 150-600 S the other day!

Tonight's shots with D3300, Sigma 100-400 C + TC-1401 (cropped a lot):





Goodnight, all!



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WSSA #456

Tord S Eriksson said:

My Beast, a Sigma 150-600 Sports, is mint, but mostly spends its days in a ThinkTank Glass Limo, a fantastic backpack made for a single lens, with a camera, or without.

Anyway, I took some moon shots with it, the other night, using a Nikon 1 V2 and an old D600, together with the TC-1401.


Cropped, D600 + TC-1401


Nikon 1 V2, no crop.

To me, the winner is the V2, as the TC-1401 enlarges the optical issues the lens has at infinity!

Maybe it is time to fine-tune the Beast!

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Great stuff! I think you're right: it's time to go "Beast Mode" as is often said by sports fanatics the world over. LOL

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Did you know that you can buy s/h 900mm mirror lenses in Japan for under $USD100?



Not that many people use them.

DavidZihon said:

Did you know that you can buy s/h 900mm mirror lenses in Japan for under $USD100?



Not that many people use them.

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No, I haven't used one, as I do not like their ring-like Bokeh! When I restarted (D)SLR photography some 15 years ago, I had very little money to spend so I read many reviews of mirror lenses as an alternative to buying expensive Pentax lenses.

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Tord S Eriksson said:

DavidZihon said:

Did you know that you can buy s/h 900mm mirror lenses in Japan for under $USD100?



Not that many people use them.

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No, I haven't used one, as I do not like their ring-like Bokeh! When I restarted (D)SLR photography some 15 years ago, I had very little money to spend so I read many reviews of mirror lenses as an alternative to buying expensive Pentax lenses.

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You call it B0K4H I call it Saturn. :-D

DavidZihon said:

Did you know that you can buy s/h 900mm mirror lenses in Japan for under $USD100?



Not that many people use them.

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And there’s a good reason why not many people use them. Image Quality. Mirror lenses have been around for a long time, and I’m sure I’m not the only person who has been tempted by the possibility of a long focal length in a small light affordable package. I’ve tried Nikon’s 500mm f/8, a Sigma 600/8, and one branded as Pentax 500/8. Results were always low contrast with a lack of critical sharpness and the donuts from out of focus bright spots.

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RichDitch said:

DavidZihon said:

Did you know that you can buy s/h 900mm mirror lenses in Japan for under $USD100?



Not that many people use them.

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And there’s a good reason why not many people use them. Image Quality. Mirror lenses have been around for a long time, and I’m sure I’m not the only person who has been tempted by the possibility of a long focal length in a small light affordable package. I’ve tried Nikon’s 500mm f/8, a Sigma 600/8, and one branded as Pentax 500/8. Results were always low contrast with a lack of critical sharpness and the donuts from out of focus bright spots.

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I stopped the purchasing plans in time to avoid spending on something I'd regret later!

There used to be Japanese-made lenses where the secondary mirror was out of the way of the main mirror's beam, similar in design to binoculars, some Hi-Fi speakers, and radar antennas, so the lens became a tall box, but rather short. Many binoculars used to have the same design, but most used prisms, not mirrors. So the lenses were like half a binocular!

These were sold in the '70s, and I wasn't aware of them till I got hold of a US-made catalog of all the world's lenses and cameras. It was like a magazine, but about an inch thick, filled with everything you could need (sadly I didn't have the funds, but my what lenses there were!).



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RichDitch said:

DavidZihon said:

Did you know that you can buy s/h 900mm mirror lenses in Japan for under $USD100?



Not that many people use them.

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And there’s a good reason why not many people use them. Image Quality. Mirror lenses have been around for a long time, and I’m sure I’m not the only person who has been tempted by the possibility of a long focal length in a small light affordable package. I’ve tried Nikon’s 500mm f/8, a Sigma 600/8, and one branded as Pentax 500/8. Results were always low contrast with a lack of critical sharpness and the donuts from out of focus bright spots.

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Fair enough.

This Having fun with TTARTISAN’s new compact 250mm reflex mirror lens. (youtube.com) video actually presents the claim that this particular lens is good for shooting the moon.

I have yet to try one. A point is that this new model is better than older designs and if you do buy one, then you need to "embrace the donut".

He doesn't really say that Moon photography causes the Donuts, more certain street photography.

From what I can find out, there was a 500mm and a 1000mm from Nikkor at one time and some seem available on the used market.

I get the point about them being pricey and not really an option.