Ever since I saw some cracking shots of the moon taken by some great experienced forum members here I have been tempted to try some myself.

With my limited abilities and experience have been pretty embarrassed to post them here, but on the other hand if I dont do it then I won't be able to improve based on the great feedback and excellent help from the forum members.

So here it goes. Quite a coincidence my little one who is a year and half decided really on the very same night that its a full moon to wake up at odd hours and wander around the house pestering poor mum and dad wanting to munch and then watching cartoons on the TV ha .

As I couldn't sleep obviously with all the havoc I decided to look through the study room window and lo and behold the moon was invitingly staring at me .

I get the feeling that it should have been much sharper. Would it be due to the limitation of my 55-300mm? I read on the forum that a 500mm is really needed for a better shot at the moon.

But as my first one it still leaves me with a satisfied smile. Hope to improve from here and hopefully think of a teleconverter.

Ideas and suggestions greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

Amin

Learning everyday . Didn't think about that until you pointed out.

Thanks Gwyn

Gwyn

Yup, you must be right. But I bought this from SRS and specifically for Pentax K20D. They told me that it works with pentax too. And there was somewhere here in the forum someone who did mention that this one works with pentax.

In fact if it didn't work with pentax then it wouldn't trigger the shutter, but it does. The only problem is it doesn't focus.

Anyway, I am done with it. I will speak to Chris from SRS tomorrow and just get the IR one. I was quite keen on the seculine to begin with, but it was just the fact that this is RF and also it doesn't need line of sight that tempted me when I went personally to the shop.

Thanks

Amin

Hi Bob

Thanks for your help. The custom setting 14 is on. In fact I have set it up for ON (option 1) constantly because I use it AF by half press of the shutter.

Unfortunately seems that the remote must be faulty.

In the small leaflet that came along with the remote it does say that focus is achieved by half pressing, which in fact the gree lights does show but the problem is it releases the shutter instead.

Gwyn,

yup, it says on the box "For all Canon DSLR Cameras 450D/400D/350D/300D/40D/30D/
20D/10D/5D/1D/1Ds


Amin

Thanks Gwyn

Been shuffling the manual and the menus also and I just keep on finding the ones in the "C" 16 which in fact states 1.OFF (AF is not operated when released with remote control) and the 2.ON (Shtter released after AF operation, when released with remote control.

I know my english is pretty awful, but I would have thought by putting option 2 (ON) I should get the autofocus from the remote.

Curious enough the remote does the steps, it goes to green both of them but immediately the shutter releases, and if I press further it does go to red, but by that time shutter is gone ha

Amin

Hi

Just bought this one from SRS http://www.srsmicrosystems.co.uk/2075/Hahnel-Long-Distance-Wireless-RF-Remote-Co...

So wanted to come back to this discussion we were having about IF and RF remotes. Obviously one of the biggest advantages about the RF compared to the IF is no need to have line of sight. But the other aspect we were talking about here regarding the RF remote functioning when the camera goes off as far as mine is it doesnt work. Just noticed that when the camera shuts down after 3 minutes as selected the remote will not wake it up.

Hi everyone

Just bought this link from SRS and I am not able to use the autofocus function in it.

This remote is supposed to work with the K20D. The lights work as it should, it turns to green at half press but then it instantly releases the shutter. When I press further the lights in the remote and receiver do turn red but by that time the shutter has released, and the snaps come out of focus. It doesn't autofocus at all.

I have changed the setting on the "C" 16 to ON.

I am just wondering if there is anything else I need to change or alter in order to get autofocus function from the camera. The remote seems to be doing all correctly, unless I am mistaken. Because it flashes green both sides and only when I press further it goes to red.

Any help I would really appreciate.

Thanks

Amin

we are square now

Thanks Pentaxian

This way I know at least that I haven't messed anything with the settings and its all how it should be.

just wondering why the SR goes off, I know there must be a reason but with my limited experience in the field I fail to discover why.

thanks for your help

Amin

Liam that's an excellent shot. I had been trying to get one today, obviously not even close to that in quality




Wanted to ask you about the reversing of the 50mm lens please. I tried the reversing ring on my 50mm f1/4 and kind of DOF seems pretty tricky and very very hard to control. Didnt like much what I was getting. But my main problem is focusing. Manually of course and using the aperture ring I could hardly see any changes when focusing with the ring of the lens. Is this normal because of the size of the lens? Is this why you mounted on an 18-55 reversely and does it make it slightly easier to focus? Or am I missing something here? I had to move the camera further or closer to acquire the focus. I notice you say you mounted it reversed on your 18-55. I have the 16-45mm but got to get the stepping ring in order to use it coupled with my reverse 50mm. The filter size is different on this one. I have the coupling rings for the 55-300mm but the only time I used to mount the 50mm on it reversed it seemed to be quite a pain, so I dropped the idea, at least for now.

thanks

Amin