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Old 22nd April 2020, 08:30 AM
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very basic question from a newbie. I am new to photography. Not new to taking pictures but new to trying to learn more about the process and really focusing on what I was trying to achieve.
I have learned a lot, I try to get my head around technical details but there is one issue that is bothering me.
Moon. I see incredible pictures of the moon from people who claim to have used iPhone or a regular camera - nothing top notch. HOW? Can you use a binoculars or a telescope and take a picture through that device? Is it even possible?


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Old 23rd April 2020, 01:43 PM
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Yes, you can attach a phone to a telescope (or a microscope for that matter) but that is about the only way you can get the moon as a close-up via a phone. You can get supplementary lenses to clip on front of a phone's camera but they do not have anything like the power required for a close-up of the moon that I have seen.

Likewise, you can buy adaptors for any camera to attach them to a telescope.
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I have tried but fail regularly. I still am amazed at John Draper skills.
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Welcome to the forum. If the rules allow it do a search for a thread which I think was Supermoon talking about photographing the moon

I fear that anything less than a 600mm lens on a 35mm camera will prove to be a disappointment and even 600mm is at the lower end if the moon is the main subject of the picture.

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Old 23rd April 2020, 08:36 PM
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Tongue in cheek answer.

Speak to those nice people at NASA who have a new spacecraft in the making, to head back there. It will cost you though 'cos I don't think you have enough air miles!
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Back around 2008 I used a 400mm Nikon lens with a 1.6 converter on a Nikon D200 which you may know has a cropped image with a magnification of 1.5.

The theoretical resulting focal length was approx 960mm. That was enough to fill the frame top to bottom with a gaps at the side. so with a 400mm lens and the same magnification converter will give you a focal length of 640mm with full frame digital or 35mm, I think that the image of the moon will be about 18mm in diameter with a 35mm/full frame digital.

My main problem was camera shake even though it was on a Manfrotto 99B tripod and the exposures were with a remote release. It wasn't image movement, although that would be visible at that magnification, it was general camera shake. As I found out it wasn't easy.
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I agree about the camera shake.

I tried (and failed) to take some photo's of the last "Super Moon".

I had a 120/600 zoom with a 2x converter which gave me a 1200 lens, image was great in the viewfinder, set up was just like John's.

Camera shake most evident, scan of resulting print is in following thread (about half way down the page)

http://www.film-and-darkroom-user.or...ad.php?t=13142

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Apparently, the image of the Moon on a 35mm negative is 1mm/100mm focal length. That would equate to 5mm diameter with a 500mm lens, or 10mm with a 1,000mm optic. I can’t recall which book that came from, but recent experience suggests it’s reasonably accurate. 10mm on a negative gives quite a big image in a print, but won’t give great surface detail. It’s just short of half the depth of the 35mm frame.
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