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Tomorrow will be full moon, a wonderful opportunity to take some nice shots. I did it today (some hours ago) since it was almost full moon and it's not sure I'll get the same chance to take pictures on Sunday too. It was damned cold though (-1 °C) and I was already in my pyjamas (as I used to be at 4:00 in the morning ).

This was the first time that I tried to take shots of the moon with my new 70-200mm lens. I already took some shots years ago with my old camera (a Nikon CP5700) and they turned out pretty good. The new lens has approximately the same zoom factor (however due to the higher resolution of the camera the moon is recorded with a bit more pixels ), but the new shots are not as contrastful as the old ones. I wonder what the reason might be. I used a tripod and timed exposure, and did some shots both with manual focus and with auto focus. None of them got as sharp as some of my old shots with the CP5700. I can only think that the difference lies in some atmospheric noise (maybe some clouds that I do not see with my pure eyes?) ... or at least I hope so. The new lens should produce definitely better images than the old CP5700. I'll try it another time and hope I'll get better results.