Shoot for the Moon

I thought I'd try a moon shot with the new camera. I guess the moon belongs to Tasmanians as much as it does to any other people so one could argue that I'm technically still on topic :-) It's certainly the best moon shot I've managed to date.

Autofocus does not work too well on the moon and manual focus can be a bit tricky. The Canon 7D SLR allows you to use the LCD monitor to compose a photo like you can with compact cameras. It also allows you to zoom in on part of that composition which makes it much easier to focus manually.

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Earth's Moon

(Canon 7D, Canon 400mm f/5.6 L lens + 1.4x converter
ISO 200, White Balance 4000 Kelvin, f8, 1/250th, manual focus)

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