Comments by Alexander Voroshilov on Thu, 05/04/06 22:11
I mean the famous moon face :)
Comments by Linda Frey on Fri, 05/05/06 07:29
An interesting blue (purple) moon. I'd like a bit more sharpness.
Comments by Ruth Rittichier on Fri, 05/05/06 07:37
I can't believe you did it with the 80-400. Very good, but it looks better with a bit of sharpening, as Linda suggested. Did you use the 80-400 only with no extension? Would you give us the EXIF information?
Comments by Rick Longworth on Fri, 05/05/06 21:01
Pretty one.
Comments by Alexander Voroshilov on Fri, 05/05/06 22:45
Thank you for your attention!
Sharpness... The Moon was in haze (with some kind of halo). But the halo not present on the image. There is sharpness worsening instead of.
So I concentrated on volume extention (Highpath, etc.) to make the subject more impressive. Unfortunately the noise was awful, so I spent a lot of time to lower it.
Even with 400 (600) mm the Moon was too small - the picture was only cropped, not resized.
My EXIF data (Opanda IExif):
Make NIKON CORPORATION 010F A
Model NIKON D200 0110 A
Software Ver.1.00 0131 A
Date Time 2006-04-12 21:37:51 0132 A
YCbCr Positioning co-sited 0213 S
Camera
Exposure Time 1/100" 829A R
F Number F5.6 829D R
Exposure Program Manual 8822 S
ISO Speed Ratings 100 8827 S
Exif Version 0221 9000 U
Date Time Original 2006-04-12 21:37:51 9003 A
Date Time Digitized 2006-04-12 21:37:51 9004 A
Components Configuration YCbCr 9101 U
Compressed Bits Per Pixel 1 9102 R
Exposure Bias Value 0EV 9204 SR
Max Aperture Value F5.66 9205 R
Metering Mode Pattern 9207 S
Light Source unknown 9208 S
Flash Off 9209 S
Focal Length 400mm 920A R
Maker Note 9616 Byte 927C U
Subsec Time 0.05" 9290 A
Subsec Time Original 0.05" 9291 A
Subsec Time Digitized 0.05" 9292 A
Flashpix Version 0100 A000 U
Color Space sRGB A001 S
Exif Image Width 3872 A002 S
Exif Image Height 2592 A003 S
Interoperability IFD Pointer Offset: 10480 A005 L
Sensing Method One-chip color area sensor A217 S
File Source DSC A300 U
Scene Type A directly photographed image A301 U
CFA Pattern [1,0],[2,1] A302 U
Custom Rendered Normal process A401 S
Exposure Mode Manual exposure A402 S
White Balance Auto white balance A403 S
Digital Zoom Ratio 1x A404 R
Focal Length In 35mm Film 600mm A405 S
Scene Capture Type Normal A406 S
Gain Control None A407 S
Contrast Hard A408 S
Saturation High saturation A409 S
Sharpness Hard A40A S
Subject Distance Range unknown A40C S
Comments by Rick Longworth on Sat, 05/06/06 09:00
Well, one would expect something 321000 km away to have such a long description. I used to wish I had a good telescope for photographing the moon and stars. I'm still wishing. 8=)
