Monday, January 21, 2008

Day 21 - Bonus photo

This shot of the almost full moon was taken with my new Nikon D40X, 200mm zoom lens set for automatic focus, programmed exposure and spot metering. It took me several several tries to get the settings right, but this camera does a great job with exposure control. This was also taken without a tripod.

5 comments:

marianne said...

impressive and awesome, m'dear - you're having entirely too much fun with that new camera! ;)

~**Dawn**~ said...

You took that without a tripod?! I bow down in awe.

Desert Songbird said...

Excellent. I'm very impressed.

Stacy at Exceedingly Mundane said...

OK, I was out last night, shivering, trying to do the same thing. Except it was extremely cloudy here. I have a new Canon, not a Nikon, and no clue how to use it for things like this. When you say "programmed exposure", what does that mean? And spot metering, gosh I feel like a dummy! I did take some but haven't transferred them yet. I'm sure they are all blurry and not nearly as awesome as your photo - very very good!

Lew said...

The D40X has 13 modes. In addition to the usual modes (auto, scene, portrait, action, etc) on most digital cameras, there are Programmed Auto, Shutter priority auto, Aperture priority auto, and Manual. In these 4 modes, there are other settings that can be manually set, with the camera doing the rest. I set the metering to "spot" and the camera automatically set the rest based on the light of the moon itself. My first attempts were in shutter priority mode and the moon was over exposed.