Members That have Digital Camera Smarts

[E-Fishin-C]

Is there a way in taking a picture of the moon without the moon being white out as the one I took below

[BuddyRich]

Depends on the camera Charlie. You'll need a tripod first. Then you'll need a camera that you can set to manual. You'll want to change exposure time (shutter speed) and Aperture (amount of light the lens will let in). Most of the inexpensive to lower midrange cameras won't have those settings. What model are you using

[E-Fishin-C]

Depends on the camera Charlie. You'll need a tripod first. Then you'll need a camera that you can set to manual. You'll want to change exposure time (shutter speed) and Aperture (amount of light the lens will let in). Most of the inexpensive to lower midrange cameras won't have those settings. What model are you using

 

 

Olympus Sp-550 UZ This thing has everyrhing including the Kitchen sink as the say:doh:

[BuddyRich]

You got one heck of a zoom in on the moon, I'll look at the manual to see if

i can help

[massey130]

i had the same problem before digital cameras were so common. I first bought a book on how to take pictures. my fix was to put my Fujica film SLR camera body on my telecope. on my telescope i used a moon filter. then the camera delay & f stops came into play. i took many timed exposures and when developed, i knew what setting to use. it takes a lot of practice and with the use of a digital photography book, you should find your answer.

 

Dale in Louisiana

[BuddyRich]

Switch from Auto to A. Then try to change the setting up or down to get the best pic. A allows you to control the Aperture manually. That way you can cut down on the amount of light your letting in. In M you can set both the shutter speed and the Aperture manually

Edited August 11, 2009 by BuddyRich

[saddlebum]

Tan before you photograph your moon :rotfl:

[Tigeress]

You definitely need to use a tripod.

 

Some helpful info on moon pics can be found here: http://www.nyip.com/ezine/outdoors/eclipse.html Scroll down the the "Exposure" section. You'll need to put the camera in manual (M) mode to set the F-stop and shutter speed.

 

 

 

[Condor]

The moon takes the same exposure as sunlight. There's an exposure compensation setting in the menu file. Set it about minus 2. That should take care of the wash out. Actually you should get a fairly sharp image handheld because your shutter speed will be the same as daylight. If your going to use max telephoto a tripod will be needed, and remember most of these digitals don't yield a really sharp image in max. If you have a high megapixel camera take the pic in mild telephoto and then crop to what you want with your image editor... Much better results.

[RossKean]

The problem is that the camera figures an average exposure for whats in the frame (some cameras do center averaging but this still isn't enough). The moon is very bright compared to the background and only takes a small portion of the frame. You actually need proper exposure for just the moon and unless you have a very fine spot meter, you will greatly overexpose the moon. As others have said, you need to switch to manual exposure and either increase the shutter speed or decrease the aperture by several stops. A lower ISO setting for the sensor sensitivity might also help. The beauty of digital photography is that you can try a bunch of different settings without cost and zero in on the optimum for a particular condition.

 

Again, as already mentioned, use a tripod.

[spear]

Charlie.

Your camera has a plethora of options for you to choose from to 'Shoot The Moon'. Fortunately one of them is MANUAL, so use that. As stated - set a low ISO (100 maybe), zoom right in to the moon (you have 18X optical to play with) with a fast-ish shutter speed (1/250) and play with your apertures. Cameras are usually calibrated for 'averages' including mid-tones of grey. Shooting the moon is going a long way away from grey - damned near white, so you have to compensate for that. Have fun. I've shot the moon many times with a Canon DSLR and 18-200 IS lens, and usually find I'm shooting up to 4 stops different to that indicated when taking a reading off the moon. And the beauty of digital? WYSIWYG. If it don't look no good - dump it!

 

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[BoomerCPO]

I can verify that most digital cameras (especially the one's owned by your wife) will not work properly when ya immerse them in salt water.

 

 

Boomer........who now avoids cameras like he does politicians.

[chabicheka]

might find some clues here...

 

http://www.dpfwiw.com/moon.htm

 

[BradT]

So with all those suggestions what did you come up with, probably the same thing Eh !

 

 

 

BRad

[Marcarl]

And I thought this was a motorcycle site, and now I got to read about taking pictures????? Oh ya, taking pictures is part of belonging here eh? So maybe Charlie is trying to become efficient and doing some practising.

[BradT]

Oh ya, taking pictures is part of belonging here eh? So maybe Charlie is trying to become efficient and doing some practising.

 

New Toy. They stopped selling 35mm film ?

[E-Fishin-C]

So with all those suggestions what did you come up with, probably the same thing Eh !

 

 

 

BRad

 

Cant find the moon Cloudy u know:rasberry:

[E-Fishin-C]

And I thought this was a motorcycle site, and now I got to read about taking pictures????? Oh ya, taking pictures is part of belonging here eh? So maybe Charlie is trying to become efficient and doing some practising.

 

Bee-Itch...Bee-Itch:no-no-no: .....Bee-Itch when I had my 35 mm and now with the digital