The Moon with 3000mm lens - with a strange observation at the second attemp

[swinxx]

here are my shots with an mto-11ca russentonne 1x crop and 3x crop (3000mm) with a canon 5d mk3
i dont know what it is but at 1:35 to 1:41 something strange happens if you ask me.. check it out.. is this camera specific, or codec specific, or just ufos?

[escho]

Nice.
How did you get the 3x-crop? With a Teleconverter?
Edgar

[swinxx]

@escho

no. just with crop mode.
but i will try to get a good 2x teleconverter.. m42 or eos and will try to get 6000mm

perhaps someone can advise a good teleconverter

thank you
swinxx

[escho]

Ah, I see!
I thougt, the 3x video-crop mode is a thing, cams like my 600D can do, but not a 5D3? That is one of the reasons at the moment, I hesitate to buy a 5D3. Or is this enabled by ML?
For my teleskope, I have a TK called flatfield-converter. It´s very good, but very expensive. With this I reach a real (!) focal lenght of 10m (teleskop 2m, flatfield-converter 3x, 2 rings to extend flatfield-converter to 5x)
Edgar

[Danne]

Nice one Swinxx!
3x crop on 5d mark 3 gives outstanding pic quality. I suppose it is 1:1 pixel. I use it a lot with dual iso.

[escho]

Now, it´s clear with the crop. I didn´t realize, it was recorded as MLV. I thougt, it was MOV.
Edgar

[chmee]

Nice. Same thought i had yesterday, cause i got my 2x extender (120-300 2.8 + 1.4 + 2 = 840mm), but the sky was cloudy..

[swinxx]

i finished building my Solar Filter today..
here are the first results.. pretty awesome for me, although i had no chance to get those sunspots sharp. but perhaps i have to try harder

[Danne]

Pretty cool stuff.

[Levas]

Good thing you say it's the sun, otherwise I would have guessed it was a white round disk and you had some dust on your sensor 

The long focal range is pretty cool
Ever used it for other objects then the moon and sun ?

[swinxx]

@levas:
Hahaha. The solar filter is indeed crazy. It filters 99,9% of the light the lens is great, but no - its mine for just 5 days.. I will shoot some scenes for a shortfilm in the next time. Will post here. Greets

[DeafEyeJedi]

Love it -- well job done swinxx!

[Hans_Punk]

I tried this last year on the early 7D build(with vertical line issue)...now I've upgraded to 5Dmk3, I need to try again

password: moon

[swinxx]

hello hans..
thank you for sharing. which lens have you used?
is this vertical banding in your video? you should def. try the correction algos.. (mlrawviewer or mlvfs)
greets. swinxx

[Hans_Punk]

7D with early build, using an old 300mm pentax m42 mount lens.
This video was from way before the vertical stripe issue was sorted on that camera (over a year ago), now I have upgraded to 5D3.

Your video has reminded to try again on the current build on 5Dmk3

[swinxx]

hello hans,
interesting, it looks more than a 2000mm lens than a 300mm lens.
have you used a teleconverter?

updated first post with a new moon video

greets.

[Levas]

you say you are going to shoot some scenes for a short film with it.
Will it be scenes witt people in it ?

That lens looks pretty sharp in your second moon video...
If I had such a lens for 5 days, I would try to capture a photo or video with a sunrise or moonrise with buildings or people in front of it 
With 1000mm or 3000mm in crop mode, that must give a gigantic moon or sun against the people or buidlings in the same frame 

[swinxx]

yes thats exactly my plan!! moonrise with the actor in front but be surprised when the film will be released.. now i am testing with pleasing results..

however, i meant that the lens is mine since 5 days.. so i do not give it back..
the seller told me that he tested 5 russentonnen and took the sharpest when he bought it.. so i think i can be pretty happy with it. and!! it was a bargain.
greets.

[Levas]

Great, can't wait to see the final clip from the short film