I took these two pictures of the moon tonight. The first one was a little before dark and the second one about an hour later. I used the Auto setting on both photos with a new 55–250mm zoom lens (zoomed all the way in) and hand held. The second phot is a little blurry, but not bad considering I didn’t use a tripod. This lens has image stabilization built in. I think I’ll get better results on the full moon with this lens even if it’s a little shorter zoom, especially when using a tripod.
Nice pictures. Makes me miss my camera. It was nothing special but I was always taking pictures of all sorts of things.
Wow, really impressive. Clear, nice pictures.
Jonco mooned us.
Haha! Good one!
What kind of camera? I am shopping for a new DSLR camera.
Canon T3i with the 55-250 IS zoom lens.
Jonco
Great picture
do you know the settings you used to get this shot, or did you do it in auto mode?
Bruce
santa_carver@frontier.com
I don’t remember the settings now. I usually take several with various setting to see what works best. I guess I should write them down. Sometime I remember and post it with the picture. Just Google taking moon pictures and you’ll get all kinds of suggestions.
B&Per Sander suggested starting out with these: ISO 400, f 6.3, 1/640th, then work from there depending on results. Did ok here, but I need a better zoom lens to make me happy.