Anyway, back to the F70EXR ... turns out that this is a little telescope in a camera :-) I was able to get a fantastic image of the moon with it, I mean a really, really good shot when you consider that this is a cam that fits in your shirt pocket. By the way ... this is a 100% crop ... there is no downsizing for the web here. That's what is so remarkable ...
That was shot in manual mode at 100 ISO, 50mm (270mm effective), 1/60s and f5.6.
I was also able to get a nice image of Jupiter, master of the southern sky. I shot Jupiter in fireworks mode at 4 seconds. Curiously, the cam chose 100ISO and F11 ... I suppose it worked ok.
Edit: Some people have suggested that there are as many hot pixels in the above image as stars. That may be true, so I processed a version somewhat less aggressively, and I think it looks more realistic. Remember to click on it to see the 800px version, which shows the very small stars much better.
I shot an image of the southwestern sky, although there isn't much there and I don't know the star charts yet ... this image is a blend of 4 images at 800 ISO, f3.3 and 8 seconds. It is shot at 5mm (27mm effective.)
But then a jet came through and I grabbed a shot of it approaching me ...
And I immediately turned around and set up a long shot as it went over the horizon towards the airport ...
The two jet images had the same exposures as the southwest sky images. All in all, I am quite pleased with the performance of this little camera for night shots. It's not too shabby ...
