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<blockquote data-quote="crycocyon" data-source="post: 738508" data-attributes="member: 13076">Although now I have bigger guns, recently I shot the moon with an inexpensive Pentax 6x7 300mm lens mounted with an adapter to my Nikon D850. After cropping etc here's the image. I agree that 300mm is a bare minimum. This was handheld in manual mode. The moon is so bright that you can get away with such short duration shutter speeds. [ATTACH]341627[/ATTACH]Here's the original photo without Adobe Lightroom work done to it. It's a jpeg copy of the NEF file. So you can see the size of the moon at 300mm and what you can achieve with 46 MP cropping. [ATTACH]341628[/ATTACH]Of course now I have the Nikon 400mm f2.8 AI-S and 800mm f5.6 AI-S with TC-14B and TC-301 coverters so I'm very much looking forward to a clear night to test these. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="crycocyon, post: 738508, member: 13076"] Although now I have bigger guns, recently I shot the moon with an inexpensive Pentax 6x7 300mm lens mounted with an adapter to my Nikon D850. After cropping etc here's the image. I agree that 300mm is a bare minimum. This was handheld in manual mode. The moon is so bright that you can get away with such short duration shutter speeds. [ATTACH=CONFIG]341627._xfImport[/ATTACH] Here's the original photo without Adobe Lightroom work done to it. It's a jpeg copy of the NEF file. So you can see the size of the moon at 300mm and what you can achieve with 46 MP cropping. [ATTACH=CONFIG]341628._xfImport[/ATTACH] Of course now I have the Nikon 400mm f2.8 AI-S and 800mm f5.6 AI-S with TC-14B and TC-301 coverters so I'm very much looking forward to a clear night to test these. :D [/QUOTE]

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