Super Moon ?

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Not so Super


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Nice & Bright, However no where Near as Large as the one I seen in the Late 70's early 80's.

My Camera is no good for Details that far away Either. weather man said
he Thinks 3 , 4, 5 AM will be better.

Hopefully I'll remember to look
 

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Jeff, Tom Clark just said this one is the biggest and brightest one in 68 years!
 

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Jeff, Tom Clark just said this one is the biggest and brightest one in 68 years!

Well All I can say Is I was driving East one Night on one of My
Cruising Trips. And the moon looked Gigantic like This
only Straight ahead on a Long Straight part of Road

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Supposed to be the biggest around 6:30 tomorrow morning. It cloudy here but I got a few
 

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I will be out from 2am till daylight to work and I will keep my eye to the sky. May not even need my headlights.......:laughing7:
 

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That was always fun - driving in the moonlight. Can't do that anymore though. I have a hard enough time seeing anymore while using headlights! :BangHead:
 

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Jeff, your pic totally over-exposed. Any way to select shutter
speed on your camera? If so, you want about 1/500th of a sec.,
and in some cases I've taken sharp shots at 1/2000th of a second.

If a point-n-shoot, some have had decent results depressing the shutter
button half way so it auto-focus's (make sure the focus zone is on the brightest
part of the Moon), and then taking the shot. With a super bright Moon in all
that darkness the camera will always over expose if it see's any of that
blackness.
 

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I saw it around 5:30 pm low on the horizon and it looked great, and hour or so later not so much so.
 

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Jeff, your pic totally over-exposed. Any way to select shutter
speed on your camera? If so, you want about 1/500th of a sec.,
and in some cases I've taken sharp shots at 1/2000th of a second.

If a point-n-shoot, some have had decent results depressing the shutter
button half way so it auto-focus's (make sure the focus zone is on the brightest
part of the Moon), and then taking the shot. With a super bright Moon in all
that darkness the camera will always over expose if it see's any of that
blackness.

I do, do the the auto focus thing .

as far as shutter speed i don't know if it had it.
there is a quality setting

I set it to 2M-F what ever that is .
I think it's the best setting though because I only get 18 pics on the card.
on the other end if I set it to 0.3M I'd get 92

it's a cheap FinePix 2650 2.0 mega pixels and 3x zoom.

I mainly like it for the Macro
 

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I do, do the the auto focus thing .
as far as shutter speed i don't know if it had it.
there is a quality setting. I set it to 2M-F what ever that is . I think
it's the best setting though because I only get 18 pics on the card.
on the other end if I set it to 0.3M I'd get 92
it's a cheap FinePix 2650 2.0 mega pixels and 3x zoom.
I mainly like it for the Macro

Just downloaded the manual for it, and well, I'm afraid you're kinda screwed..
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You do have some options for white balance, and it's preset to ISO 100.
Other than that it's pretty much in auto mode.

I've got a Fuji FinePix A700, which is a 7MP version. This series
had great macro functions, and 7MP is plenty for computer viewing.
For any kind of macro shot I prefer it over my Nikon D90.
 

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Dizzy... any points for my Gpro for best pics ?

My Sony I never adjust either.
 

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Surprised... everyone talks about the moon... yet no one about the tides. :/ heh
 

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No Tides here in North Eastern PA unless you go to the Laundry soap section of the store
 

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This moon thing is giving me bad dreams again about the monkey people I had when I was very young. There Back :munky2:
 

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This moon thing is giving me bad dreams again about the monkey people I had when I was very young. There Back :munky2:

no monkey people here.
just tall pale white aliens who kill my lights,
paralyze me and and stand and stare.
till I'm finally able to break free & yell
 

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no monkey people here.
just tall pale white aliens who kill my lights,
paralyze me and and stand and stare.
till I'm finally able to break free & yell

Hmmm any "probing" going on ? :P :P :P
 

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Pot Head Detectorist anyone.
 

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