Lunar Eclipse Pictures

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   Thanos on April 6, 2008 at 12:16

   Those are great! Would you care to share what your camera settings were and what lens you used?

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   RAPH on April 6, 2008 at 13:56

   Thanos,

   Thanks for your reply.

   Wish I could give you more information than I actually have but here’s what I do have.
   Pics were shot with a tripod mounted Nikon D-50 set to “large/fine” .jpg format with a Guardforce SR-732 Zoom Spotting scope. (15-45X65mm) mounted to the camera body via adapter and activated with a remote control to eliminate shake.

   This was an experiment I’ve wanted to do for a long time, film cameras making it cost prohibitive. I shot over 300 frames before I got this series. There’s about 40 other photos in this series so I just picked the ones here as representative of the event.

   Since there is no aperture setting for the scope, the only other setting I had to work with was shutter speed and since, for some reason the camera didn’t record that information and I, unfortunately, didn’t record it anywhere either (duh) I can’t tell you anything other than it was set to manual and I just shot about 10-15-20 frames at a time until I got the resolution (manual focus of the scope was also an issue) and brightness/contrast I wanted. Additionally, I did tweak the brightness/contrast a bit in Photoshop and re-sized the shots to a manageable size.

   Sorry I couldn’t give you more info. Basically it was, shoot 10-15-20 frames, download and view in the computer, shoot another batch, repeat until satisfactory results were achieved.

   RAPH

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