Try, try again

My friends here have been, one after another, taking lovely pictures

of the moon. I have been trying unsuccessfully for a couple of months

to get as good a moon picture as I have seen. I'll keep trying.



My longest lens is an old Tokina 80-200 zoom. It is from the 1980s, I

think -- a friend gave it to me last winter. I have also tried the

Olympus 40-150 zoom which is made especially for the M4/3 cameras I

have. Surprisingly to me, the old Tokina produces better images. And

another surprise -- I am getting better pictures on the (older)

Olympus E-P2 than on the recent OM-D E-M1. I suspect this last fact

is a matter of handling, not of different qualities of the two cameras

but I haven't narrowed it down yet.



This is a substantial crop of a picture I took over a month ago, and I

made this tiny .jpg for uploading. I chose just one of the colour

channels for best contrast, if not sharpness; then I did some

judicious sharpening overall. The darkness at the bottom and on the

right are leaves on the tree I was shooting through. It is not as

good as my friends' pictures, but I am improving. And I will get

around to using a tripod one of these nights. :)