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How do I took photo of moon? Need advices. Newbie here. 4 second shutter speed.
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>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
Think of the moon as an 18% gray card receiving full sunlight and meter accordingly. I.e., 4 seconds is way too fucking much.

Since the inky blackness of space doesn't put out much light, your meter will try to average out the scene and come up with absurd lengths of time. So you'll have to shoot manually.

Ideally, you'd want to shoot it with a really, really long telephoto, but since you've got a non-SLR, your options are "The lens on the camera" or "Buy a whole other camera", so this is probably the best you can do in terms of getting it to fill the frame. Might be worth looking at putting something other than just the moon in the frame, although that will take some doin' to get the lighting right so that the [whatever you put in the frame besides the moon, which will be lit only by moonlight, and therefore dark] is in the same brightness range as the moon.
>> Anonymous
Thanks a lot for the feedback. I'm guessing more like 1 second for exposure?
And any idea what the aperture should be set to?
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>70947
1. Wait for the moon to come up
2. Take picture
3. Chimp. Adjust aperture/shutter speed up or down accordingly
4. Lather, rinse, repeat
>> Anonymous
a 10x zoom and some cropping could be enough, just be sure to use the lowest iso available (should be 64) and spot metering.
>> Anonymous
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If the moon is really bright, you can get surprisingly fast shutter speeds.

Terrible example, but it was a 200mm on a 3x teleconverter or something IIRC.

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>> Anonymous
Well I took this great advice and setup my tripod but then my batteries died.
Went to shop to get more, and by the time I got back, the moon went behind the trees. :(
>> Anonymous
>>70978

Lesson learnt; Always have spares. And then spare spares.
>> Anonymous
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>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>71439
OP, note the one-ONE-HUNDREDTH of a second exposure time on this.
>> Anonymous
Don't stop down so much. Seriously, diffraction is not your friend.

Find out what your len's sharpest aperture is, and set it to that. Focus on infinity. Spotmeter on the moon. Set shutter speed accordingly. Press the shutter.