{"id":111,"date":"2007-08-31T00:35:24","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T21:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2007\/08\/31\/the-moon\/"},"modified":"2007-08-31T00:46:59","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T21:46:59","slug":"the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2007\/08\/31\/the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moon, as seen by a Canon EOS 350D camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a lucky owner of a Canon EOS 350D digital camera, plus 3 sets of lenses &#8212; 28-105 mm, 90-300 mm, and one 50 mm for macro shots.<\/p>\n<p>But this is just for a few days&#8230; I&#8217;ve borrowed the Canon from a friend, to experiment, and will have to return it soon; still, I have some time to experiment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and today I tried to make a photo of the Moon, when it was rising above the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>To make the long story short, here are my modest results <em>(click the thumbnail for full-size)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-uploads\/2007\/08\/img_2294_the_moon_by_michel.jpg\" title=\"The Moon (as seen by a Canon EOS 350D)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-uploads\/2007\/08\/img_2294_the_moon_by_michel.th440.jpg\" alt=\"The Moon (as seen by a Canon EOS 350D)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I tried a lot of manual settings, before I achieved some acceptable results. Also, the 90-300 lens is not very good at its long end (after the 220-300 mm range images tend to become a bit blurry), and still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I am very happy with this shot of mine &#8211; the first one in my life, in which you can see actually the Moon, and not a blurry yellow dot instead! ;-)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll publish some more shots these days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The 350D is a marvellous machine &#8212; pity that I can&#8217;t afford myself one like it&#8230; But maybe one day, who knows? :-)<\/p>\n<p><em>PS If you&#8217;re curious about the full EXIF info (ISO, exact aperture, exposure, etc.), check the thumbnail!<br \/>\nPPS As if by accident, NASA Image of the Day (<a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/\" title=\"Astronomy Picture of the Day\">APOD<\/a>) published yesterday a very <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap070830.html\">interesting photo of the moon<\/a>, too &#8211; reason is the full lunar eclipse which happened on the 28th of August and lasted for 90 minutes:)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a lucky owner of a Canon EOS 350D digital camera, plus 3 sets of lenses &#8212; 28-105 mm, 90-300 mm, and one 50 mm for macro shots. But this is just for a few days&#8230; I&#8217;ve borrowed the Canon from a friend, to experiment, and will have to return it soon; still, I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}