topic Re: Lunar Excursion - RF 200 - 800 First Outing in Share Your Photos

Lunar Excursion - RF 200 - 800 First Outing

shadowsports — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 07:48:42 GMT

Greetings,

The moon was spectacular this evening, so I took my 200-800 out for a test drive. My initial thought. I could not believe how light this lens is. I shot on a tripod without a shutter release. These are uncropped.

800mm, 1/125, F10, ISO 200800mm, 1/250, F10, ISO 320800mm, 1/500, F10, ISO 800

Last two are cropped

Crop

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Happy with the results. Lens filter was KF Concepts 95mm, 3.3mm frame, 99.6% light transfer, 28 layers, titanium coating.

Re: Lunar Excursion - RF 200 - 800 First Outing

Tronhard — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 17:31:33 GMT

Great shot Rick:

The 200-800 is an amazingly light lens for what it does, I expect because of the use of engineered plastics in the body structure, and with an IBIS enabled camera combined with the lens IS, it's pretty stable to hand-hold at full zoom.

Congratulations on your new acquisition and I hope we shall see more images from it and you!

Re: Lunar Excursion - RF 200 - 800 First Outing

shadowsports — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 18:09:35 GMT

Thanks sir. I'm happy with it. I was very surprised at how light it was. I can see now why bluetooth or cable releases are so popular. I have a cheapo IR release that's almost a decade old. I was too lazy to dig it out. There was a little shake. I shot Tv at speeds which were fast enough to freeze shake, but slow enough to keep ISO down. I made a few corrections in DPP. Not bad. I may need to go find some birds. 🦅🦜🦆