{"id":259,"date":"2020-05-07T14:16:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T14:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/?p=259"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:03:29","slug":"2020-5-6-oh-look-the-moon-81019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Oh look, the moon – 8\/10\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the 10th of August I went out to a nearby parking lot as I\u2019ve done before and took pictures of the moon. Over the past few months as I had been using the Tamron 150-600 I couldn\u2019t help but notice how the reviews I read were turning out to be true. It\u2019s a great lens overall, but you really lose sharpness past 300-400. They do have a zoom lock switch that only works when it\u2019s at 150, or right around that middle spot. I think 400. I no longer have the lens today otherwise I would just grab it and double check.<\/p>\n

It becomes fairly apparent when you\u2019re taking pictures of the moon at 600mm. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canon 7D w\/Tamron 150-600mm @600 – 1\/800 Sec – F6.3 – ISO 400<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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But also if you miss your focus. That\u2019s not going to help matters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canon 7D w\/Tamron 150-600mm @600 – 1\/30 Sec – F16 – ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Much better. And this one is at a much slower shutter speed, smaller aperture. But it still was lacking what I wanted. At full resolution you really don\u2019t get all the details. Or if I cropped it and zoomed in, it\u2019s just kind of lacking that crispness that I wanted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And here\u2019s what happens when you set it to the longest exposure time, and just jiggle the camera all over the place. Looks like a signature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canon 7D w\/Tamron 150-600mm @600 – 30 Sec – F6.3 – ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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That\u2019s it for that day. Not much else to post except more pictures of the same type of thing. I know astrophotography is a whole other style. And people use different techniques for it. I\u2019d love to try it some day, but that\u2019s a whole other type of money spending venture I can\u2019t finance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the 10th of August I went out to a nearby parking lot as I\u2019ve done before and took pictures of the moon. Over the past few months as I had been using the Tamron 150-600 I couldn\u2019t help but notice how the reviews I read were turning out to be true. It\u2019s a great […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1825,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}