In four minutes, I show you how to take a detailed photo of the moon. I use a Canon T2i but the principles will also apply to other Digital SLR cameras, providing you have manual controls. Here is the text: So it's the middle of the night and I feel like taking a picture, but what can I take a photo of? Ah, now there's a shining example of a photo that everyone wants to take... a picture of the moon. But probably not with this point-and-shoot. Let's use a proper camera. Here's my T2i, and I've fitted my 'kit' telephoto lens and set it on a tripod. Let's go and see what this can do. We'll choose auto (that's the green one) and take it outside and see what it's capable of. OK, we'll turn it on, line it up with the moon, zoom in, and get some definition in the focus area, focus, and... Oh. That didn't look very good, let's see what we got. Well, that was awful. It's true. As I make this in 2012, auto simply isn't going to work. Because most of the screen is black, it's going to boost the brightness of the moon until you can't see its features because it's blown out. Right, enough joking, now let's do it properly. The first thing is to set up a picture style with maximum sharpness. Menu button, two-spot camera page, right at the bottom. User defined 1, press the DISP button to set the detail, sharpness, all the way up to 7. Now we'll turn the dial to Manual. Select picture style, and choose user defined 1. Make sure your lens is set to have focus on Manual, and the Image ...
Sunday, December 16, 2012
How to take a photograph of the moon using a Canon T2i DSLR camera
How to take a photograph of the moon using a Canon T2i DSLR camera Video Clips. Duration : 3.98 Mins.
In four minutes, I show you how to take a detailed photo of the moon. I use a Canon T2i but the principles will also apply to other Digital SLR cameras, providing you have manual controls. Here is the text: So it's the middle of the night and I feel like taking a picture, but what can I take a photo of? Ah, now there's a shining example of a photo that everyone wants to take... a picture of the moon. But probably not with this point-and-shoot. Let's use a proper camera. Here's my T2i, and I've fitted my 'kit' telephoto lens and set it on a tripod. Let's go and see what this can do. We'll choose auto (that's the green one) and take it outside and see what it's capable of. OK, we'll turn it on, line it up with the moon, zoom in, and get some definition in the focus area, focus, and... Oh. That didn't look very good, let's see what we got. Well, that was awful. It's true. As I make this in 2012, auto simply isn't going to work. Because most of the screen is black, it's going to boost the brightness of the moon until you can't see its features because it's blown out. Right, enough joking, now let's do it properly. The first thing is to set up a picture style with maximum sharpness. Menu button, two-spot camera page, right at the bottom. User defined 1, press the DISP button to set the detail, sharpness, all the way up to 7. Now we'll turn the dial to Manual. Select picture style, and choose user defined 1. Make sure your lens is set to have focus on Manual, and the Image ...
In four minutes, I show you how to take a detailed photo of the moon. I use a Canon T2i but the principles will also apply to other Digital SLR cameras, providing you have manual controls. Here is the text: So it's the middle of the night and I feel like taking a picture, but what can I take a photo of? Ah, now there's a shining example of a photo that everyone wants to take... a picture of the moon. But probably not with this point-and-shoot. Let's use a proper camera. Here's my T2i, and I've fitted my 'kit' telephoto lens and set it on a tripod. Let's go and see what this can do. We'll choose auto (that's the green one) and take it outside and see what it's capable of. OK, we'll turn it on, line it up with the moon, zoom in, and get some definition in the focus area, focus, and... Oh. That didn't look very good, let's see what we got. Well, that was awful. It's true. As I make this in 2012, auto simply isn't going to work. Because most of the screen is black, it's going to boost the brightness of the moon until you can't see its features because it's blown out. Right, enough joking, now let's do it properly. The first thing is to set up a picture style with maximum sharpness. Menu button, two-spot camera page, right at the bottom. User defined 1, press the DISP button to set the detail, sharpness, all the way up to 7. Now we'll turn the dial to Manual. Select picture style, and choose user defined 1. Make sure your lens is set to have focus on Manual, and the Image ...
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