Photo of last month's full moon (Oct 28, 2023). Taken with a Panasonic Lumix GF2 body fitted with a Vario 45-200mm lens. Other information: f/16 1/200 sec 200mm ISO 100 In-camera 4x digital zoom/cropping.
IR: Backyard , a photo by Jepster on Flickr. I haven't opened my box of camera stuff since I got here (6 months already and I haven't fully unpacked yet. I know.. I know... I should just get on with it already) and I was trying to look for my R72 filter that I knew was in the pile of boxes somewhere. I found my old IR camera (an old Fuji FinePix S602) which I was using before to get IR photos with the gel type IR filter but the exposure times were usually so long and you needed a nice stable tripod. Also the live view doesn't really do a…
Moon Originally uploaded by Jepster . A colleague of mine took this photo using her prosumer digital camera. I was actually surprised at the quality. It was shot at the limits of the camera's optical and digital zooms but the pic turned out very well I think. Well, the best thing with digital cameras is you don't have any film to waste by making a lot of trials to get the exposure just right. Astrophotography is one of those cases where you can't rely on the auto exposure settings. Nice pic. I really want a new DSLR but even then, I would…
