Beautiful moon tonight but I couldn't get it with my Sony Cybershot

[snapsnap1973]

Hi.

Know nothing really about photography (but am interested) and on my way home tonight I noticed a beautiful (half) moon and wanted to capture it with my Sony Cybershot (dsc h20 I think), but all I get is a bright spot with no detail whatsover. So basically I just got a black sky and what looks like a light bulb, I'm not getting what my own eyes see. I tried raising an lowering the ISO to no avail and even put the camera on EASY mode, but still the same thing. Is this just cause this is a crap camera? I'm gonna be getting into a DSLR soon.

Thanks

 

[coastalconn]

read this... How to Photograph the Moon

 

[snapsnap1973]

Just read it before reading your reply, but it doesn't say anything about doing it with a "point and shoot". I assume it's not possible, but my Cybershot has a 38-380 lens. Is it possible with a cheap camera like what I've got?

Hmmm ... I looked up "cybershot moon photo" in google and see that someone got a pretty good shot with an hx9v Cybershot.

http://imgfave.com/search/sony cyber-shot dsc-hx9v

 

[coastalconn]

He actually does mention P&S. try following his suggestion of setting it in manual mode.

 

[Benco]

Those settings suggested in the article will do the job as long as you can apply them to your camera. A shortcut is to use exposure compensation to underexpose the photo by a couple of stops, it's not a reliable technique though.

If you want a photo of the moon with your zoom racked out you will need a tripod.