Excellent, and not at all boring. I see no significant noise problems in any of these. Great detail. Grace, who fancies the moon, is going to love them. By the way, don't disparage moon pics. I sold one that wasn't quite as good as these for over $200 through my stock house. Paul
On Jan 3, 2007, at 11:29 PM, William Robb wrote: > While the fellas were out for their evening constitutional, I looked > at the > heavens and saw a very clear sky with the moon in a location that I > could > take pictures of it easily. > So, I set up the rig again, and went about photographing it again. > This time, I set the focus most carefully, and used a cable release on > the > camera, along with the 3 second delay. > Then, I decided to ramp up the ISO to see if I could get some noise. > There are three shots of the moon on this page, the top was shot at > ISO 100, > the middle at ISO 400, the bottom was shot at ISO 1600. > Again, this series was shot with the A600/5.6 with the 2XL converter > mounted. I attempted to process each file as close to identically as I > could, though I gave the ISO 1600 file less sharpening as it was > showing > noise at that point. > > http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/moon/moons.html > > Anyway, as a technical experiment, it seems successful, as a > photograph, the > subject line says it all. > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

