How to take pictures of the moon with a digital camera?

I have never used DC to shoot the moon, so I found an online article for your reference, hoping to help you:

Whenever the bright moon rises in the night sky and the silvery moonlight spreads all over the earth, many friends can't help but raise DC, aim at the moon and press the shutter. But unfortunately, even the DC with ten times optical zoom pulls the focal length to the farthest end, and the photographed moon is just a light spot, and no details can be seen on the moon. Who let the moon be so far away from us? The optical zoom of DC is not enough. What should I do? Hehe, it doesn't matter. If you want to see the beauty of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon with DC, please come with me.

Equipment items

If the public wants to do a good job, they must first sharpen their tools. To this end, I have prepared the following equipment:

1, Russian Ubirul telephoto lens. This lens has a focal length of 500 mm and a fixed aperture of 5.6; With a large caliber, it is a truly qualified "cannon". Hua 700 yuan bought it second-hand from hummingbirds. (Figure 1)

2. M42 Luokou's dual rangefinder. This lens can be used after the lens is turned back, and the focal length can be increased to 1000 mm, but the aperture value is also reduced by two steps. 180 yuan bought it from hummingbirds.

3. PL eyepiece tube, connected behind the dual rangefinder, is the support of PL eyepiece. There is a screw on it to fix the PL eyepiece. 150 yuan purchased from Beijing Wright Network;

4. The PL eyepiece commonly used in astronomical telescopes is used to make the scene image image on this eyepiece after passing through the folding lens, so that the DC lens can shoot normally. I prepared two PL eyepieces with focal lengths of 45 mm and 25 mm respectively, and bought them from hummingbirds for 60 yuan. (Figure 2)

5.PL eyepiece adapter ring, with three screws arranged evenly at one end, can be connected behind PL eyepiece and fixed in the groove of PL eyepiece with screws; The other end is a 52 mm external thread, which can be connected to a 52 mm nozzle on DC. 60 yuan bought it from Beijing Wright Network.

The 6.52mm nozzle is connected with the PL eyepiece ring in front and the digital camera in the back. Each digital camera uses a different adapter. 30 yuan bought it from Yi Bei.

7. Olympus C-2000z digital camera with 2 million pixels and triple optical zoom (35 mm to 105 mm). 750 yuan bought it from a hummingbird. It is connected to a 52mm adapter.

A stable tripod is very important.

Is it more like a cannon after being connected in the above order? (Figure 3)

Then let's get ready to shoot. ;

Shoot an article

Let's start with the 40 mm PL eyepiece. At this time, the magnification of the whole system reaches 75 times (500mm×2 multiplication distance of folding lens ÷40mm×3 times optical zoom of camera), and the total focal length reaches 2625 mm Turn on the DC power switch, turn on the liquid light screen, bring up the macro mode and self-timer mode, select the aperture priority (AV) mode, and adjust the aperture and focal length to the maximum. Hold the adjusting handle tightly, turn the pan/tilt, and aim the lens at the moon. You will find that it takes a lot of effort to aim at the moon because of the small viewing angle. Finally, the moon appeared on the LCD screen. The moon was moving slowly, and it was clearly seen on the liquid screen. Take the time to fix the pan/tilt. First, turn the focus ring of the folding lens to make the moon focus clearly, then press the shutter to make DC focus, and finally press the shutter to shoot.

At this time, it should be noted that due to the long focal length, the shutter is slow (when the aperture is F2.8, the shutter is only 1/20 seconds), and the camera vibrates slightly, the picture will be blurred and the shooting will fail. Therefore, never shoot by hand or press the shutter directly. It is best to choose self-timer to delay shooting to minimize the impact of vibration. .

With the start of the shutter, a wonderful photo of the moon is fixed on the LCD screen (Figure 4). Although there are no traces of Chang 'e and Jade Rabbit, the lifelike craters on the moon are still breathtaking. Take advantage of DC's no shooting cost, and shoot as many as you want.

With 25mm PL eyepiece, the lens magnification reaches 120 times and the total focal length reaches 4200mm. The image of the moon exceeds the size of the viewfinder LCD screen, and only a part of the moon can be photographed, and the details are more obvious (Figure 5).

Skill article

1, you can choose to shoot the new moon, because the sun is oblique to the surface of the moon, and the shadow of the crater makes the image more detailed:

2. It is best not to shoot with a digital SLR camera unless you have a high-end digital SLR camera with a pre-lift mirror. Nowadays, the popular paraxial digital camera does not have the effect of rollover vibration when shooting, so the picture is clearer;

3. This system can also be used to shoot birds, but the shot image is an inverted image, which can be turned into a positive film by photo processing software such as photoshop.

Ok, after talking so much, everyone's fingers are itchy, wait and see your photos!