Hm, well, it seems that everyone had better weather than me for the 99
solar eclipse! Still, the important thing for me was to be in England
and see it. Won't get that chance again! I have a few photos from my
expedition to Cornwall at
http://www.worldtraveller.f9.co.uk/astro/photos/eclipse/index.htm . Not
as good as Erwin's and certainly not as spectacular as Donald's, but
this will all change after June 21st!
The whole thing is a grave dilemma for me - can't decide if I want to
take my Beast (Vivitar 400mm f/5.6) and go for close-ups, or take my
newly-acquired fisheye converter and go for whole-sky shots.
I'll be backpacking, so weight is a big factor. I'm still looking out
for a cheap 500mm mirror. Also as Mike V recommended I don't want to be
so concerned with photography that I miss the event. 3m45s isn't that
long! I remember in Cornwall it really genuinely seemed like totality
only lasted about 20s.
Erwin, I'm certain you still need heavy filtration, even with K25.
Solar filters block 99.9990f visible light - equivalent to 16 stops.
One thing I wish I'd got on film in Cornwall was the extraordinary sight
of thousands and thousands of camera flashes going off all over the
surrounding countryside. Staggering waster of film, but it was quite an
effect! I doubt I'll be seeing the same thing in Zambia.
Roger
Erwin Voogt wrote:
>
> Hi Donald and others,
>
> Your pictures of the sun are better than mine!
> I did made some pictures with the Zuiko 300 mm F4.5 on Kodachrome 25.
> However, I forgot to compensate the shutterspeed for the thin clouds, so
> most of my pictures are underexposed.
> K25 (or K64) is a perfect film for the solar eclipse I think: very natural
> colours, very sharp and you don't need filters because of the low speed.
> Reciprocity is not a subject when photographing the sun itself. As you can
> see with my wide-angle-umbra pictures, the reciprocity works fine for the
> scenic photos (the "darkest" pictures were exposed for about 40-60 seconds).
> The reason I didn't take much telephoto pictures is that I wanted to see the
> eclipse myself instead of messing with the camera(s)...
> The 1999 eclipse made me thinking about the perfect setup for taking
> pictures. Want you want is an easy to operate camera. A camera that makes a
> series of pictures with different shutter speeds, but without the vibrations
> of an AF-wonderbrick (a friend of my used a Pentax Z1: all pictures were
> crap due to heavy vibrations). The nice thing is, there is an OM that offers
> the possibility of external control of the shutter speed: the OM-10! By
> making your own manual-adapter, connected with a wire to the OM-10 you can
> select the shutterspeed without touching the camera. You can even control it
> with a computer. Through the winder you can even release the shutter by a
> computer: exactly at calculated times... first contact, diamond ring...
> etc.!!! The only problem with the winder is vibrations, but maybe those can
> be prevented by using the selftimer.
> I do not own a OM-10, so maybe I am talking nonsense. Any comments?
> Can you use the selftimer in combination with the winder?
> Does it prevent vibrations (i.e. are the 12 seconds enough to relax and is
> the semi-mirror-lockup adequate)?
>
> Bye,
>
> Erwin Voogt
> Utrecht, The Netherlands
> http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/photovoogt/index.html
>
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