Here is a shot of the full moon I did tonight. This was taken with my Pentax K10D and Pentax 50-200 lens. I did this in full auto with the exposure compensation set to -2 stops. It was shot raw and processed in Adobe Lightroom. It was cropped. It is this kind of cropping that is the reason higher resolution is important. Not for more detail but for extreme cropping with having enough left of the image to do something with.

Oh, the camera was tripod mounted.

Robert

robert, i agree that resolution on the k10d makes a difference but here's a cropped shot from my DS from a month ago. shot HHed.. the lens also matters.

how do you get these kind of photos

get a tele and aim it at the moon and experiment......
film's cheap.

roy

Here is mine from a while back with my DS

http://computerartscompany.com/500M42_1.4XCrop.jpg

dafiryde wrote: These shots are also cropped a lot. I've several on my computer but haven't taked any lately.

DonR

http://donr.zenfolio.com/

Heavy crop, heavy sharp and some over sat!! But I like em.

Dawg

This is what i got using an old Tokina 400mm RMC lens which was handheld on k100d and is similar to Roberts which i prefer to the others but all are good efforts

http://tc3.smugmug.com/photos/224807183-L.jpg

bigdawg wrote: here's mine straight from the cam. 100%crop.

roy

Much better Roy...Like that one.

Dawg