Friday, March 18, 2011

Supermoon, in auto focus

Supermoon, in auto focus by Dopeyrizer
Supermoon, in auto focus a photo by Dopeyrizer on Flickr.

Picture of full moon at close orbit to Earth, or super moon, as it's also called. Given that Bangalore is almost 1km above sea level and pretty close to the equator, I wonder if this is the closest I ever will get to our only natural satellite.

I had my auto-focus optics calibrated in the local Canon service center here in Bangalore and based on the pic above, at least the 70-300mm is now right on the money. All my previous moon pics have been taken with manual focus, which is fiddly to the extreme due to the focus ring being both really fast and not damped at all in this otherwise nice lens.

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