Johnny,
Your images came out much sharper than mine, but where's the
color? Did you shoot in monochrome mode? It sounds like the Live View is
very handy but alas (drat) not to be found on the E-500. I used an 80mm
aperture f8 scope (equivalent to 480mm lens) with on old Tokina 2x
doubler., but had problems with camera shake even with a 2 second
shutter delay. Results were OK but not as sharp as yours. Good job.
Charlie
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Johnny Johnson
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:53 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Eclipse
Hi folks,
Well, I hadn't tried photographing the moon (started to say "shooting
the moon" but decided not to risk the abuse <grin>) since the mid
seventies. That was with an OM-1 and a cheap 1200mm telescope. But
the combination of the eclipse last night, the E330 and Zuiko 300/4.5
gave me the inspiration to try it again.
I think that the sweet spot of the 300 is around f11 but I thought
that might not work well with the small sensor of the 330 so I used
f8 instead. Live view B was used for all the shots - I focused
using the 10x zoom, took a test shot, downloaded it and checked the
focus on the computer screen. I left the focus at that point and
went back to the 1x view for framing the balance of the shots. I
found that the lens will focus past infinity so my adapter may be a bit
thin.
The forecast was for cloudy conditions but things were relatively
clear when I first started shooting. Here's a shot taken at 8:10PM
EST when the moon was in the prenumbral stage of the eclipse (1/80 @
f8):
<http://home.alltel.net/jjohnso4/Eclipse01.jpg>
As the eclipse progressed light to heavy clouds started moving
through. Even when there weren't visible clouds in front of the moon
there was a lot of moisture in the atmosphere that hampered the
seeing. This next shoot was taken at 9:01 PM EST (1/40 @f8):
<http://home.alltel.net/jjohnso4/Eclipse01.jpg>
Another shot taken at 9:27PM EST (1/10 @ f8):
<http://home.alltel.net/jjohnso4/Eclipse11.jpg>
As totality neared I found that my exposure times were
increasing. Also about this time, the quality of the pictures went
to heck. I need to do some research to refresh my memory as to when
blurring due to exposure times becomes a factor when photographing
the moon. There's also the possibility that I bumped the focus ring
on the lens and, by this time, the atmosphere was loaded with
moisture. This last shot was at 9:47PM EST (1 sec @ f8):
<http://home.alltel.net/jjohnso4/Eclipse12.jpg>
Overall the live view on the E330 was fun to use - maybe a little
better than a normal DSLR with a right angle finder. However, during
totality I couldn't see the moon on the LCD. I didn't bother to try
the live view boost to see if that would have worked any better.
Looking back I wish that I had taped the focus ring down once I had
infinity focus confirmed. I also wish that I had tried some higher
ISOs than 100 and some bracketed shots for HDR processing. All in
all it was a fun 90 minutes though.
(Comments on the pictures are welcomed.)
Later,
Johnny
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