photo: full moon (Olympus E-M1)

[Godfrey]

The Moon was full last night and I decided it was time to see how my $90 Sigma 600 mirror lens would do ...

Olympus E-M1 + Sigma 600mm f/8 cat
ISO 400 @ f/8 @ 1/640 second

uncropped image​

Thanks for looking! Comments always appreciated.

G

 

[adresaba]

Nice moon, beautiful.

 

[Manuel Patino]

Shot with the 40-150mm Oly lens on the EM-1

Shot with the 40-150mm Oly lens on the EM-1

I tried using a 500mm Rokinon mirror lens with my EM-5 and the EP-5, but the IQ was just not there.
I just got my EM-1 and I decided to take some shots of the moon with the Zuiko 50-200 ED 4/3 as well as adding the Olympus 1.4X teleconverter. The shots looked OK but appeared a bit blurry... Then I thought I'd try the little Oly 40-150 which is pretty inexpensive, but a fine lens IMHO. I also used the digital tele-converter feature of the EM-1.. Here is the shot, not cropped...

 

[Manuel Patino]

Here it is cropped...

 

[zuiko85]

Not bad Godfrey. Lets see, 600mm, that's 6 X .9mm or 5.4mm diameter at the image plane. Much better than I have ever been able to do with my E-410 and a cheap 500mm f8 I picked up for $12. Found out why it was so cheap, sure I did.

 

[charjohncarter]

I've tried moon shots, and I've never had anything. Nice job.

 

[zuiko85]

I've tried moon shots, and I've never had anything. Nice job.

To try a moon shot;
First, get a Saturn V rocket.....

Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[Godfrey]

If I don't crop mine it looks sharper too:

🙂

G