@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.
@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.
