Fic Dani Martinez Y Anna Simon

Photographing the moon

always our natural satellite has fascinated man from time immemorial, people have searched for tools to capture.

To shoot the moon does not adequately serve sophisticated equipment or expensive, more than anything else are some things I try to explain in this space how to get better with our equipment.

order to capture even the craters of the moon are satisfied with the following characteristics:

Compact machines: at least 10X zoom (35mm focal length equivalent to ==> 300 mm ).

reflex camera: zoom lens at least 200mm.

Assuming that all reflex cameras allow manual control over all parameters must be specified that the Compact requires that you can manually set the parameters for:

• time;
• diaphragm;

often using automatic machines to photograph the moon, we find that the moon is so overexposed (white) that you can not see the craters, this is because the moon itself occupying a very limited portion of the frame, and as the rest of the black frame, the automated program that controls the exposure tends to overexpose, so it is necessary (if the camera has no controls manual) with the exposure program "spot", so the machine "wrong" less, considering the exposure in a smaller area of \u200b\u200bthe frame.


instead having the manual controls available, you can proceed with efforts such as:
Time 1 / 200 of a second
Aperture f / 5


We are testing and adjusted by hand by hand to obtain the desired result.


I enclose some sample pictures of the moon is made with compact (bridge) with either camera.

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Fotocamera:  Panasonic 
Modello:  DMC-FZ50
ISO:  100
Esposizione:  1/60 sec
Diaframma:  6.3
Distanza focale:  88.8mm
focale equivalente 420mm

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Fotocamera:  OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. 
Model: E-510
ISO: 100
Display: 1 / 400 sec
Aperture: 6.3
Focal length:
150mm equivalent focal length 300mm