Shel,
Here's a reason for you. Suppose the moon was almost (but not quite) full.
That would give it an oval shape would it not?
As to why it would look round through the viewfinder and with your naked
eyes, that would be your brain compensating what you see to conform with
what you "know" it should look like.
Len
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 9:21 AM
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> Subject: Oval Moon
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> A few days ago I shot three photos of the setting moon. They
> all had a somewhat oval-shaped appearance and I'm wondering why
> that might be.
>
> I used the A*300/4.0 lens mounted on an LX. The setup was
> tripod mounted, the shutter was tripped with a cable release.
> Aperture was f/8.0 and the exposure was about 1/30 or 1/60 sec.
> The camera was in the horizontal position.
>
> Here's the pic, taken from the print with an el cheapo digital
> camera:
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ovalmoon.jpg
>
> Any ideas why the moon might be oval-shaped.
> --
> Shel Belinkoff
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> There are no rules for good photographs,
> there are only good photographs.
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