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Originally Posted by Maite
Hello....I just registered here today...am looking for help for tonite....I have a NikonD3 and don't know much in fotography...I want to catch the full moon tonite....but I dont know how to do it to get a perfect photo.....HElp !....thanks
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I don't know if this has been said, but 300mm is barely enough to see the moon in any detail at all on a 12mp Aps-C sensor. at 300mm the moon takes up about 15% of the frame, at most, and a huge crop is required to get those full square aspect ratio images.
Also, focus in manual is not good enough I think. You have to use live view and zoom all the way in. A micro difference in focus is a world of difference in sharpness at that crop ratio. This from personal experience.
Attached files show the original and the cropped, edited version for comparison. Note that it also helps to have a really good 300mm (or longer!) lens. Cheap lenses tend to be soft at their extremes, and this was taken with a cheap lens. I applied massive sharpening and then a pretty good amount of noise reduction to bring it back to something less than an eyesore.