Today I discovered and learned a new term in a camera. It's digital zoom and optic zoom. Apparently my camera has 70x digital zoom and 35x optic zoom. From what I read, digital zoom is something like a crop image then zoomed in. Meanwhile optical zoom is an actual zooming. These two differs in quality with optical zoom more superior than digital zoom. Correct me if I am wrong though. And though, the quality sure differs but it is fun to me that I get to see the moon, up close.

Unfortunately, it was raining where I live. So, it wasn't as clear as I'd like it to be. I tried to do some post-processing with lighroom but it didn't turn out as I'd like it to be.

Today, I also learned that moon phases has different names each month. For example, The January full moon is traditionally called the Wolf Moon because wolves can be heard howling at the moon more around this time of year. I hope this year, I can get a better camera + better lens. So I am manifesting this and hoping it can come through just before the end of the year 😂.

These moon pictures are taken with different settings and zooming. Like this one was taken with optical zoom instead of digital zoom.

Meanwhile this one was taken with digital zoom over 70x

I wanted to capture the craters like I used to in the past. I guess, I was lucky that time. So, all I can do right now is research when we can see the moon's crater and I can only hope it won't rain.

Without a tripod, sometimes I get results like these below:

So, it's really better to use a tripod and a timer when capturing still object like the moon.

Did you go out and watch the moon today?

If you didn't, grab a camera and hopefully you get to be at a nicer spot than mine. Unless, you want to suffer like me and going through a lot of blurry ones before getting the good shots.

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