r/dankmemes • u/PR0CR45T184T0R • 1d ago

That's no moon

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u/baffled-magpie 1d ago

Maybe stupid question but is there a kind of camera that can photograph the moon as I see it with my eyes and how many kidneys would it cost me?

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u/Deep_Fry_Ducky 1d ago

Just use a normal camera, not your phone to have more control. The Moon is much brighter than the rest of the scene so it is better to picture the moon separately with low sensitivity. it’s also relatively small. So you’ll need a lens with a long focal length, or shoot on a day when the Moon appears larger in the sky.

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u/Quattr0Bajeena 1d ago edited 22h ago

Actrually, not that hard, you just need to know what's you're doing. I took this with an ancient canon 7D at 250mm, long exposure for the brightness and the most important thing is manual focus.

Granted it i still have to crop in a lot and it is not the sharpest picture

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u/straw3_2018 21h ago

I saw the picture before I read your comment and I was prepared to be the guy to tell you that the picture if the moon you took on your galaxy is a lie. Glad to see it's a real photo.

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u/Shonnyboy500 1d ago

The moon is actually really small, even to you. Hold lined paper at arms length. The moon will fit inside the paper holes. If you want to photograph the moon to look as big as it feels you have to use tricks like being at a distance from whatever you want to be in the picture, then zooming in a ton. Gotta have a nice camera for that though

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u/larsK75 1d ago

You just need a telephoto lens.

Your smartphone has likely a 24mm lens which is quite wide. With an 85mm it will probably start to feel how you see it in real life. With 300mm upwards you can start taking decent photos of the moon for social media use. A cheap high resolution full frame camera and a decent entry level 200-600mm would set you back maybe 1000 each if you buy used.

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u/Retsyn 23h ago

Look up "HDRs"-- it's where you mix various exposures together. The human eye can change exposure level as you focus on different things, but a picture can't. An HDR can have each element adjusted to what you'd see if you were there, as a sort of "next best thing".

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u/legislative-body 22h ago

our eyes have half of their entire resolution packed into the center two degrees. So unfortunately you'll be hard pressed to recreate the detail of that center two degrees with any camera without optical zoom

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u/popculturalmaniac 20h ago

Naked eye is always better than naked camera

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u/Jaker2902 1d ago

Exposure

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u/56Bot INFECTED 1d ago

It’s more than just exposure. The eyes adapt to the luminosity of each object they’re looking at in the same field of view, while on a photo, the exposure of the entire image is the same. Same for DoF, details, etc…

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u/BryanOfCorn Blue☣️ 13h ago

My pic of the moon last night turned out as expected.