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<blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 847396" data-attributes="member: 48483">Since disassembling and cleaning my 500mm reflex Nikkor last winter, I had it in mind to try more astrophotography with it. It used to be somewhat fuzzy for moon photos.This is tonight: Zf, FTZ-II, 500mm f/8 Reflex Nikkor (from about 1981) + 2X teleconverter (of the cheapest full-manual kind) on a steady tripod. Effective 1000mm focal length at f/11.First photo was set to ISO 1600 and a longer shutter speed, 2nd was later at ISO 3200 and faster shutter. I did no crop for these but did a lot of image adjusting on both. Noise is pretty obvious on the ISO 3200 but I'm limited by the lost 3 stops of light with the teleconverter.[ATTACH=full]430902[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]430903[/ATTACH]I think I last tried to do a moon photo with this lens a decade ago with a D7000 and no teleconverter. I did not approach this amount of detail then.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BF Hammer, post: 847396, member: 48483"] Since disassembling and cleaning my 500mm reflex Nikkor last winter, I had it in mind to try more astrophotography with it. It used to be somewhat fuzzy for moon photos. This is tonight: Zf, FTZ-II, 500mm f/8 Reflex Nikkor (from about 1981) + 2X teleconverter (of the cheapest full-manual kind) on a steady tripod. Effective 1000mm focal length at f/11. First photo was set to ISO 1600 and a longer shutter speed, 2nd was later at ISO 3200 and faster shutter. I did no crop for these but did a lot of image adjusting on both. Noise is pretty obvious on the ISO 3200 but I'm limited by the lost 3 stops of light with the teleconverter. [ATTACH type="full" alt="2026-08-22A.jpg"]430902[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="2026-08-22B.jpg"]430903[/ATTACH] I think I last tried to do a moon photo with this lens a decade ago with a D7000 and no teleconverter. I did not approach this amount of detail then. [/QUOTE]

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