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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 329188" data-attributes="member: 12827">Exposure for the moon is the same as the &quot;Bright Sunny Day&quot; rule which states that on a bright sunny day, no clouds, that your proper exposure will be 1/ASA @ f/16. So if you are shooting ISO 100 you would expose at 1/100 (1/125 for the days when you did not have the ability to adjust shutter speed in 1/3 stop increments) @ f/16. Now if you are shooting the moon with a long focal length, you would be much better off going more with something like 1/500 @ f/8 to minimize any unsharpness due to camera movement, even on a tripod. I shot this image back on the day of the &quot;super moon&quot; with my D700, 600mm f/4 AIS Nikkor and TC-300 teleconverter. I used 1/500 sec if my memory serves me correctly, even on my heavy Bogen studio tripod because at an effective 1200mm focal length that is 24x magnification. As with all ED lenses, you can focus past infinity, so I focused on the focusing screen rather than just arbitrarily setting the focusing ring at infinity. <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/stm58/media/supermoon700-1.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/stm58/supermoon700-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 329188, member: 12827"] Exposure for the moon is the same as the "Bright Sunny Day" rule which states that on a bright sunny day, no clouds, that your proper exposure will be 1/ASA @ f/16. So if you are shooting ISO 100 you would expose at 1/100 (1/125 for the days when you did not have the ability to adjust shutter speed in 1/3 stop increments) @ f/16. Now if you are shooting the moon with a long focal length, you would be much better off going more with something like 1/500 @ f/8 to minimize any unsharpness due to camera movement, even on a tripod. I shot this image back on the day of the "super moon" with my D700, 600mm f/4 AIS Nikkor and TC-300 teleconverter. I used 1/500 sec if my memory serves me correctly, even on my heavy Bogen studio tripod because at an effective 1200mm focal length that is [I]24x[/I] magnification. As with all ED lenses, you can focus [I]past [/I]infinity, so I focused on the focusing screen rather than just arbitrarily setting the focusing ring at infinity. [URL="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/stm58/media/supermoon700-1.jpg.html"][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/stm58/supermoon700-1.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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