Failure

There was a very spectacular moon, shining through a hole in the clouds over Epsom last Friday evening.

A moon which the telephone could not really cope with, getting some suggestion of the interesting colour of its halo but losing all definition of its shape and losing the hole in the clouds, this despite using the zoom feature. With the hole in the clouds being perhaps twice the apparent diameter of the moon. I suppose it could not cope with difference in light intensity between the light of the moon and the dark of the cloud. Which seemed to mean that the hole in the clouds, somewhere in between, vanished. Lost in translation.

But it did acquire some kind of an echo, below and slightly to the left, not present in real life at all.

Whereas, when in bright sunlight, when snapping a very bright scene, invisible on the screen, it seems to manage quite well, producing a very acceptable snap. Provided, that is, that one has guessed the right direction in which to point the telephone.