penumbral eclipse Nov 28 2012

This image is of a penumbral eclipse on Nov 28 2012, taken 30 min

after the point of greatest eclipse. Taken with Canon SX50HS 1200mm

focal length, handheld shot 1/800s f/6.5 ISO 400 processed with

Rawtherapee and Gimp.

All comments/suggestions/critiques most welcome

very good control. compliments -koushik

Hi Ranga,

A nice capture of a special event.

Well done with the Point and Shoot system.

Best Regards, Mike

Hand-held?!  Gads!  Great shot.  Almost as if I was there.

Koushik, Mike and Anonymous critiquer

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Mike, nice to see you back in action.

A beautiful result, Ranga!

Ruud

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amazing.  it's good that you kept the aperture wide open with so many pixels on such a small sensor.  f/6.5 pushes the diffraction limit, i'm afraid.  if you ever do this again, it would be interesting to try one at 1200-mm-equivalent and one at 600-mm-equivalent, wide open as well.  you could then downsample the 1200 to be the same resolution as the 600, and see which was sharper.  you might be surprised.  best, jamie

Thanks Jamie for your critique and observations.

Just getting  a 'feel' of my new SX50, a lot more to do.

I don't have a lens and tripod good enough for this! Good shot, very good indeed Ranga!

Best regards

PDE

A classic but wonderful image: compliments!

PDE, Maurizio

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Fabulous capture! Well done!

Tony

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