Moon with Sony A77ii and Tamron 150/600mm lens

[Ralph]

These are a few shots I found that I had taken when I had the tamron lens.

[Isac]

Personally, I think the P900 does a lot better Arthur. These are good though. A good practice to get great hand held moon shots is to use the very common "Loony 11 Rule". Set the camera to manual - focus to infinity and select f:11 and then set the ISO and Shutter Speed to the same settings. For example 100 ISO = 1/100th Shutter Speed / ISO 400 = 1/400th Shutter Speed. A real good starting point for good exposure of full moon shots.

[Ralph]

Personally, I think the P900 does a lot better Arthur. These are good though. A good practice to get great hand held moon shots is to use the very common "Loony 11 Rule". Set the camera to manual - focus to infinity and select f:11 and then set the ISO and Shutter Speed to the same settings. For example 100 ISO = 1/100th Shutter Speed / ISO 400 = 1/400th Shutter Speed. A real good starting point for good exposure of full moon shots.

Every shot in this lot and most of the one I have ever taken with the big lens were hand held.
And I am always on manual for them to. But since the Nikon P900 which has made me lazy.
These shots I took one night for someone on a photo page so I took these and posted the setting's so they had somewhere to work from.
To your full moon,well I try to miss that like a bad habit. I find the full moon so boring.
And find it much better at different amounts of it showing.
Thanks for your comments on both of the ones I have done also as I never thanked you for the last one.

[Isac]

Thanks for the reply Arthur. The Looney 11 Rule also applies to different visible phases of the moon. Here's the settings for those: