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Gato Moteado

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11. beautiful shot, peg!

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Original post)

Wed Oct 1, 2025, 08:52 AM

Wednesday

i haven't ever tried to photograph the moon with anything other than my cell phone.

i'm assuming you used the olympus.

a few questions, so i can learn:

1. what focal length lens did you use?
2. what were your aperture and shutter speed settings?
3. how did you focus on the moon? did you use auto-focus or did you manually focus or did you just set the lens to infinity?

any other tips or tricks would be interesting for us moon photo wannabes and newbies.....

thanks!

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Yes you were Peggy! Great work! Glad to find you back behind the viewfinder! George McGovern Monday #1

Thanks so much, dear George! It was wonderful, seeing the moon alive in my viewfinder. CaliforniaPeggy Monday #3

Beautiful! markodochartaigh Monday #2

Thanks so much, my dear markodochartaigh! And thanks also for the great song! CaliforniaPeggy Monday #5

Wow, Peggy wendyb-NC Monday #4

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Nice! 2naSalit Monday #7

Thanks so much, my dear 2naSalit! CaliforniaPeggy Monday #9

Serene and spectacular Easterncedar Monday #8

Aw, thank you so much, my dear Easterncedar . . . CaliforniaPeggy Monday #10

beautiful shot, peg! Gato Moteado Wednesday #11

Glad to help, if I can! Answers below: CaliforniaPeggy Wednesday #12

wow....you can shoot these as fast as 1/30..... Gato Moteado Wednesday #13

This lens requires that I use a tripod, alas. CaliforniaPeggy Wednesday #14

ah ok.....i thought maybe the image stabilization was good enough at 1/30 even with the telephoto.... Gato Moteado Wednesday #15