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NorbR said:tomscott said:How were you focusing?
What I did was basically frame the shot in the centre but to the left so when I got the tripod sorted etc I would wait for the moon to move into the centre of the frame. I set the focus at infinity to set my framing, then use live view to make fine adjustments at 10x view with the image stabilisation on to steady the viewfinder, then turned it off 10 second shutter release to ensure the camera was still then it took the shot.
Same thing, essentially, Live View at 10x for the fine adjustments. I've done it several times for the non-eclipsed moon and it works like a charm. I just didn't realize how much harder it would be on the eclipsed moon (which in hindsight should have been obvious, I know). I couldn't make those fine adjustments so easily, the whole thing was too noisy in Live View (by the way, is it just an impression, or is the 5D3 bad at this? I feel like my 6D gave a clearer view ...)
Pag said:The eclipse from start to finish over Quebec City:
Mt Spokane Photography said:neuroanatomist said:
Nice. Your exposure was a lot different than mine, I had to use 2 sec at ISO 6400. I think we had some high clouds moving in, but I could not see any in the photo. Not many stars were showing, and the moon was dimmer than expected.
Of course, we were much earlier here(7:47 PM), so it had just managed to get reasonably dark.
9VIII said:tomscott said:Valvebounce said:Hi Folks.
Yet more very interesting and excellent shots. I just heard on local radio that it has been 30yrs since a blood moon was visible from my area, I hope I didn't pass up the opportunity to see one for another 30yrs, if I had realised the timings my customers may have got a very tired person turn up!
Cheers, Graham.
Next opportunity to get the two phenomena's together will be 2033 so another 18 years.
Hopefully by then we all have pocket sized 800mm DOMkII lenses.
I just let my center point autofocus do all the work. Oddly enough contrast detect in live view did not like the circumstances. I guess I never thought to fine tune with manual focus in live view because the phase detect sensor didn't stop working... If you focused on the edge of the moon, focusing on the middle didn't work once it got dark.
Mt Spokane Photography said:Tim Durkan regularly captures great photos of the moon and of eclipses.
This is one of his great ones.
https://www.facebook.com/KOMONews?fref=nf
Nitroman said:... with quickly comped moon