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Well recently with the clear sky over Perth, I tried taking my first moon pic with a lens recently purchased, Nikkor ED 28-200 F3.5 - 5.6.

The data as shot was F10 - 1/250 sec Spot Metering and set to Manual
Not the best moon shot around, but thought i`d post anyway

http://photobucket.com/albums/b263/Trev ... =Moon3.jpg

Hi Newbie D70,

Here is one I took as well seem fairly similar. I used my 70-300 G Lens.

F5.6 1/500th Sec Aperture Priority 300mm focal length and hand held took me alot of different settings and attempts to get to this though!!!

http://www.pbase.com/mrsoz/image/50966942.jpg

With respect 200 and 300 mm lenses simply do not have enough reach for this sort of thing, and what you guys have captured is about their limit.

May I suggest that you try early morning rather than late at night as the moon always seems to appear closer.

Thanks for that Oneputt,

The weather here has been overcast for a couple of weeks but maybe next full moon I will try out the early morning shot.
Yes I realise these lenses are very limited for this kind of thing but my lens lust doesn't extend to reality at the moment
I have been looking at the 2 x teleconverters........ do they make much of a difference with say the 70-300mm lens?

cheers

Tony

Tony even when I had a 500mm it still wasn't really enough, and I do not know personally how a TC works with that lens. Someone here will though.

blaize wrote:I have been looking at the 2 x teleconverters........ do they make much of a difference with say the 70-300mm lens?

Tony,
Negative! no way you can use or have any TC work on that lens.

Posted here before but once again, I repost it for you:

http://blog.nikonians.org/archives/Niko ... 0Table.pdf

Thanks once again Birddog, I will have a read!!

cheers

Tony

I hate it when people moon on public forums.