Lunar Excursion - RF 200 - 800 First Outing

[shadowsports]

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.

[Tronhard]

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!

[shadowsports]

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.  🦅🦜🦆