I found my safety glasses from the 1999 eclipse and they still work well, I know this because we have clear skies and I'm hopeful it'll stay that way for the next 2 or 3 hours.
Now I just hope my Neutral Density filters for the camera are gonna be enough to take decent pictures. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find much advice on how to photograph eclipses when you don't have a telescope or something so we'll just have to see
All ready for the eclipse
I found my safety glasses from the 1999 eclipse and they still work well, I know this because we have clear skies and I’m hopeful it’ll stay that way for the next 2 or 3 hours.
Now I just hope my Neutral Density filters for the camera are gonna be enough to take decent pictures. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find much advice on how to photograph eclipses when you don’t have a telescope or something so we’ll just have
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10 stops, f/8, 1/2000th is what is being advised around here as a starting point. Adjust as needed to compensate for under/over exposing.
Do NOT look through your OVF, use the back panel or EVF instead and don't forget to enjoy the show while it's going on… we've got clouds down here so I'm going to have to miss out I think. Looking forward to what you may capture!
10 stops for the ND filter you mean? I think I read similar figures somewhere. If that's so, I have a 2, 4 and 8 so will be able to do a 10 and yeah no worries I don't plan to ruin my retina, I have a swiveling back panel so I'll use that
Definitely fitting in to the Scottish reputation of being
Scroogelikefrugal +Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith​ 🙂+Alison Christensen you mean the glasses? They were just a souvenir for a long time, I didn't really expect to need them again
Just me being cheeky +Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith​, no insult intended.
+Alison Christensen I wasn't insulted 🙂
Phew! Good to hear 🙂
Que de souvenir, sauf que je ne sais pas du tout ou son les miennes.