Moon taken with a Canon 550D using the crop mode.

Taken with a Canon 550D through a Sigma 150-500mm at 500mm. The movie was captured using the 640x480 7.2x crop mode.

It's cropping from the native sensor resolution of 5184x3456 pixels, which is obviously much higher than 1920x1080 pixels. So cropping a 640x480 pixel area from the native sensor resolution results in a 7.2x magnification (vertically). People seem to forget that even in full HD mode the camera is using the whole sensor and therefore interpolating the pixels down. This is where the new crop factor comes from.

3456 / 480 = 7.2 This is a crop NOT a digital zoom like uscaling a DVD to HD is for example.

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[motormusic1]

Can i ask why it's moving?

[TheTranquilityBase]

@motormusic1 Cos it moves! What a totally dumbass question.

[poprocz]

This is when things get down right amazing, when the moon is no longer smooth round but has a slight jagged edge because of the picture quality.

[MartinHDJ]

I want that lens :p

[drewpyfz6]

Had my camera over a year and did not know it could do this - did not get it for video (in my defense)

Thanks for posting this video - has really helped me.

[psychopathenator]

This is an amazing piece of work, I enjoyed it very much.

[brtcdspies]

WOW!!

[motabbirh]

Excellent

[fordpwrXR8]

@TheTranquilityBase yeah agreed its like looking across a bbq hot plate. Its not rocket surgery people :P

[DanTheLeprechaun]

That is truly incredible well done ! gettin my 550D in next few days cant wait to try this out just need a decent tripod :)

[edubarioni]

holy shieeeet very good

[AllThingsKen]

@TheTranquilityBase haahahahahahahaha

[FGFBACH]

@motormusic1 the reason goes back to the times when big bang happened...