EOS Rebel T7 Images Look Too Far Away

[booley]

my pictures aren't coming out right what am i doing wrong? and the time is 24 hour not 12

this is from my Fujifilm 18mp 50zoom
this is form my Fujifilm 18mp 50zoom

next three are from my New Canon EOS Rebel T7
next three are from my New Canon EOS Rebel T7

with lens 300 and it was on 300
with lense 300 and it was on 300

lens up to 300 zoom
lense up to 300zoom

[deebatman316]

I was looking at it from my cell phone last night when I responded. So I didn't notice the size difference until now looking at my laptop. You bought a great camera you just need a longer lens unless you crop in like your Fuji camera is doing. If you're going to be taking pictures of the moon you need to be using a longer lens. Your current EF 75-300mm F/4-5.6 isn't long enough. Its also not one of Canon's finest lenses. All of Canon's 75-300mm lenses aren't know for high quality. You would have an angle of view of 120-480mm when compared to Full Frame when using this lens. 

-Demetrius

Current Gear: 5D Mark IV, EF 16-35mm F/2.8L III USM, EF 24-70mm F/2.8L II USM, EF 50 F/1.8 STM, EF 85mm F/1.8 USM, EF 70-200mm F/2.8L IS III USM, 430EX III-RT, 470EX-AI & 600EX II-RT

Retired Gear: EOS 40D, Sigma 17-50mm F/2.8 EX DC OS HSM & EF 28-135mm F/3.5-5.6 IS USM

[deebatman316]

You would need a super telephoto lens to fill the frame with the moon it. Just like the first picture you posted.

-Demetrius

Current Gear: 5D Mark IV, EF 16-35mm F/2.8L III USM, EF 24-70mm F/2.8L II USM, EF 50 F/1.8 STM, EF 85mm F/1.8 USM, EF 70-200mm F/2.8L IS III USM, 430EX III-RT, 470EX-AI & 600EX II-RT

Retired Gear: EOS 40D, Sigma 17-50mm F/2.8 EX DC OS HSM & EF 28-135mm F/3.5-5.6 IS USM

[jrhoffman75]

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@booley wrote:

So was I misinformed and This wasn’t the right zoom to get? 

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For cameras like the Rebel large magnification telephoto lenses are rare and expensive. Canon makes a huge 800mm telephoto lens and it costs $17000. Depending how much you want to invest in astrophotography Sigma and Tamron make 150-600mm zoom telephotos, which will give you larger starting point.

You can get decent moon shots with your Rebel with a little work.

You may have missed focus. You want to be on a tripod and focus on the edge of the moon. The camera needs contrast to focus; half-on and half-off the moon edge to get that contrast. (Or focus in daylight and tape, like my previous suggestion.

Your third image had enough info to get a reasonable image out of it using Topaz Photo AI.

If you get proper focus and exposure you should get an image that you can crop to give a reasonable size image.

[wq9nsc]

As John stated, a high magnification lens is quite expensive but the 150-600mm "super zoom" glass isn't horribly priced and I bought one last summer as one of my hiking lenses and I was very impressed with the performance given that it is a fraction of the cost of my Canon L series primes.  600mm on you APS-C sensor size camera provides decent magnification so you won't have to crop as much.  As others noted, you also have to nail the exposure and I would go with manually set exposure for the moon.

Some examples, the first photo is with the expensive Canon EF 800 f5.6 lens which still required a lot of cropping, the second and third are from a Celestron CPC-1100 HD telescope.

Rodger