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[Shimmy]

Looks awfully noisy for ISO 200 and an exposure of 5 seconds.  I reckon it must be massive crop considering the lens he has used, 60mm is really quite wide for this.

Would have been a lot better had he used a telephoto to keep the IQ w/o needing a huge crop.  Which also suggests the bit about "waiting for 40 years" for that shot is false, I know if I was waiting for the right moment I would have the right lens attached for it.

[Kevin Wood]

Looks awfully noisy for ISO 200 and an exposure of 5 seconds.  I reckon it must be massive crop considering the lens he has used, 60mm is really quite wide for this.

Would have been a lot better had he used a telephoto to keep the IQ w/o needing a huge crop.  Which also suggests the bit about "waiting for 40 years" for that shot is false, I know if I was waiting for the right moment I would have the right lens attached for it.

That's another possibility, of course.

And, of course, the wider the lens you have, the greater the probability that the lightning will be somewhere in the field of view.  Just crop off all the empty sky around it.

It's a nice image, but it wouldn't win any prizes, IMHO. If that were the culmination of 40 years of my effort I would be looking for another hobby, I think.

Kevin