If the clouds cooperated by staying away, then many people around the world (excepting Australia and region, apparently) got to see the total eclipse of the moon during the night of Oct 27/28, 2004. And judging from the pictures on digital camera discussion forums, many took photos. Those with a typical 3x zoom (2x telephoto), or with no zoom were disappointed: the moon looked too small. Those with hefty zooms, such as the Canon S1iS' 10x (7x telephoto) zoom got pretty nice results. My plan was to use the timelapse feature of the S1iS to create a photo-montage of the... Read more →
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