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<blockquote data-quote="Clovishound" data-source="post: 787403" data-attributes="member: 50197">Re: Moon HDRLike I said in the earlier post, I put the AF in small, single point mode. Just make sure that point is on the moon and Bob's your uncle. I'm using the 200-500 without any teleconverter, so it's F5.6. Again, stopping down one or two stops can help, if you are not quite spot on. If I had a teleconverter, I would have used it.&nbsp; I believe the increase in magnification would probably give me more detail, and if it slowed the max F stop down to where AF didn't work well, manual focus would be fine with me. I shot this last set with a monopod, so some were sharp and some were just a little soft. I attribute this to camera shake. I should have gotten the tripod out, but had the tripod head mounted on my new monopod in a warm spot, so everything was ready to go. I made sure and kept shutter speeds up, which helped a lot, but if I were serious, I would have swapped over to the tripod and set it up in a solid configuration.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clovishound, post: 787403, member: 50197"] [b]Re: Moon HDR[/b] Like I said in the earlier post, I put the AF in small, single point mode. Just make sure that point is on the moon and Bob's your uncle. I'm using the 200-500 without any teleconverter, so it's F5.6. Again, stopping down one or two stops can help, if you are not quite spot on. If I had a teleconverter, I would have used it. I believe the increase in magnification would probably give me more detail, and if it slowed the max F stop down to where AF didn't work well, manual focus would be fine with me. I shot this last set with a monopod, so some were sharp and some were just a little soft. I attribute this to camera shake. I should have gotten the tripod out, but had the tripod head mounted on my new monopod in a warm spot, so everything was ready to go. I made sure and kept shutter speeds up, which helped a lot, but if I were serious, I would have swapped over to the tripod and set it up in a solid configuration. [/QUOTE]

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