Moon shot - IQ limit reached for equipment/locaton?

[Archer]

How does one perform a mirror lock-up with a camera that does not have a mirror lock-up function?

It's for maintenance only apparently. To inspect/clean the low-pass filter.

 

[Ballistics]

You can do a lot better with your setup.


Moon by The Photo Major, on Flickr

Look @ my exif data and start from there.
This was taken with a 200mm lens. Not an amazing moon shot, but @ 300mm you can get so much more detail than I did.

This was taken with a garbage tripod too.

 

[Archer]

You can do a lot better with your setup.


Moon by The Photo Major, on Flickr

Look @ my exif data and start from there.
This was taken with a 200mm lens. Not an amazing moon shot, but @ 300mm you can get so much more detail than I did.

This was taken with a garbage tripod too.

Would it be fair to say that's not a fair comparison? Granted it's at 200mm but it's also cropped from a 16mp image vs my 6mp.

Haven't figured out how to view exif data on a posted photo. DL'd exif extension for Chrome - said no exif data. Then DL'd Opanda - said no exif data. Either it's not available or I'm doing something wrong.

Actually, this whole post was about getting someone to tell me I can't do any better. Then I could justify purchasing a D7000 . Been thinking about bringing home all the kid's sports pics with intentional motion blur. Look honey, my camera's no good anymore. Have to get the D7000