topic Re: Moon shots with rebel xti? in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

Moon shots with rebel xti?

idkkemily — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 15:40:55 GMT

Hi, I was wondering how take moon pictures with my xti. I tried it and used a 55-250mm lense but my pictures still show up making the moon look so small. I've seen people's photos of a big detailed moon and I was wondering how to do that. Thank you!

Re: Moon shots with rebel xti?

jrhoffman75 — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 15:59:56 GMT

Many moon shots are through a telescope.

Your lens at full zoom is equivalent to a 400mm lens field of view on a 35mm film camera or a full frame digital camera.

There is no substitute for length when photographing the moon.

If its just for "fun" its probably not worth the money, but if it is for a special purpose you could rent a ling lens, like a 600mm telephoto.

Then, with careful technique you could get something that you could then crop and print large.

Re: Moon shots with rebel xti?

StanNH — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 18:53:15 GMT

@jrhoffman75 wrote:
Many moon shots are through a telescope.

Your lens at full zoom is equivalent to a 400mm lens field of view on a 35mm film camera or a full frame digital camera.

There is no substitute for length when photographing the moon.

If its just for "fun" its probably not worth the money, but if it is for a special purpose you could rent a ling lens, like a 600mm telephoto.

Then, with careful technique you could get something that you could then crop and print large.

This was taken with a T6s and a Tamron 150-600mm lens at 600mm. You're absolutely correct about anything less than 600mm being very limiting.

Re: Moon shots with rebel xti?

TCampbell — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 04:04:42 GMT

@StanNH wrote:
@jrhoffman75 wrote:
Many moon shots are through a telescope.

Your lens at full zoom is equivalent to a 400mm lens field of view on a 35mm film camera or a full frame digital camera.

There is no substitute for length when photographing the moon.

If its just for "fun" its probably not worth the money, but if it is for a special purpose you could rent a ling lens, like a 600mm telephoto.

Then, with careful technique you could get something that you could then crop and print large.
This was taken with a T6s and a Tamron 150-600mm lens at 600mm. You're absolutely correct about anything less than 600mm being very limiting.

... and aggressively cropped.

600mm on an APS-C camera wont show the moon filling nearly so much of the frame.

To fill the frame like this (without me doing the math) you'd probably need somewhere around 1200-1400mm.

The image below was shot using a 540mm aporchoarmtic refractor with a 2x teleconverter for a total focal length of 1080mm and it still doesn't fill the frame of an APS-C camera.

Re: Moon shots with rebel xti?

idkkemily — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 12:26:30 GMT

Awesome photos!! I saw on borrowlenses.com I can rent a telescope that has a canon mount. I want look into that. Thanks for the help guys!!