Tina,
There is probably time for you to order a sheet of solar film from
Thousand Oaks ($22). With one sheet I have made filters for two telescopes,
two sets of binoculars, two telephoto lenses and multiple hand-held
viewers. All you need is a hot glue gun and some paper board (cereal boxes).
http://thousandoaksoptical.com/shop/solar-filters/silver-black-polymer-sheets/
Charlie
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We are slightly off the path of total eclipse but it should be impressive
> here in York, SC. I've got glasses and a telescope with a solar filter
> coming from B&H. I'm not sure how I'll take photos. I have lots of dark
> filters but the actual solar filters are sold out everywhere and way too
> expensive. I may just watch.
>
> Tina
>
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Dean Hansen <hanse112@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > How many OM Listers will be able to take in the total solar eclipse
> in
> > a week? My wife will be visiting her sister near Nashville, TN, and will
> > see totality of two minutes and forty seconds. I plan on being somewhere
> > on the sagebrush flats of Wyoming not too far from Casper--I'll get two
> > minutes and thirty seconds of totality. Should be a thrilling 2:30,
> > indeed!
> > Any camera suggestions? I'll have my Canon 1014 XLS Super 8 movie
> > camera on a tripod, and I plan on setting the exposure manually for
> > whatever it should be for full daylight and then have the camera do its
> > magic single frame per second (or five, or ten, or whatever seconds) and
> > get a two plus hour record of the darkening and then lightening of the
> > Wyoming landscape compressed into a couple minutes of filming. Gotta do
> > the math, here, Deano. I'm thinking of pointing the camera to the south,
> > with a fairly wide angle setting, and record what happens on the
> > landscape. I'll leave a time-lapse of the moon's actual crossing of the
> > sun to the pros.
> > So when totality comes, what then? My 60-300 Tammy at 300 on the OM
> > 4T and pointed right at the sun? Any ND filter? Or just say screw it
> and
> > simply stand back and be awed by something I'll never see again?
> > Whatcha going to be doing next Monday, folks?
> > Digest Dean
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