ECLIPSE Asignation

[Corran]

I have to work

Wasn't planning on that, but unfortunately lots of changes and increases in duties here lately have made it impossible for me to travel. However, we are still hitting like 80% coverage. I have carved out a few hours in the afternoon to setup and shoot, with my wife assisting as I have to be working at maximum coverage. I plan on setting up 2 or 3 cameras - one digital shooting timed exposures, one 4x5 camera with 20x ND filter (I calculated the exposure based on sunny-16 and the time needed based on correction factors), and one other film camera of some type doing the same or similar.

Now, I hope for the rain currently predicted to move to one day later or else nothing will be seen/shot.

Oh well, there's always 2044.

[jnantz]

I'm preparing to do movies of the event:

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YES!
IC thanks, you made my day
I was just looking over my H8 films and wishing I still had my camera LOL
and BOOM there you are
looking forward to hearing how it went
John

[Hugo Zhang]

I don't have special sunglasses to watch. Is it safe to watch it on my 16x20 camera ground glass with some filters? Red or ND?

[Mark J]

I watched the 1999 one in Schwarzwald, Germany.
It was a poor day, and half an hour before totality, it was raining.
It seemed dim and cloudy still, as the time approached, but actually the cloud was thinning but the sun was getting dimmer.
About 2 minutes out, we realised that the sky had cleared, and started jumping around in excitement.
In the end it was a perfect view, and I got several shots on a 350mm lens, just wished I'd taken a 500.

Wishing you similar luck.

[OKAROB]

500mm Nikkor Reflex+ Nikon 2X teleconverter 800ASA 1/80 sec f16
Hardest part is tracking the sun. The sun is moving across a 35mm frame unbelievably fast with a 35mm frame. If you can, practice taking pictures and tracking the sun.
Don't forget to stop and simply watch the eclipse! It is magnificent!

[Jim Jones]

In addition to the big gear, using almost any camera that can capture multiple images on one frame of film supplements the usual eclipse photos as in this shot of a lunar eclipse decades ago.

[John Layton]

Jim, I've never photographed an eclipse in the manner that you have above, but am thinking I'd like to try this. So...I have two questions, first one being: what film, filter, aperture/exposure time? (oops, that's three questions!). And two: time interval between each snap of the shutter? Thanks!

(yeah I know...I can probably figure this stuff out - but then I'd have only myself to blame if I mess up - and what's the fun in that? )

[Tin Can]

I am not going beyond my 1/2 acre

Same as 7 years ago

I may take pics of people

or not

[Tin Can]

oops

family of 3 incoming

the traffic scares me

[Vaughn]

In addition to the big gear, using almost any camera that can capture multiple images on one frame of film supplements the usual eclipse photos as in this shot of a lunar eclipse decades ago.

Nice, Jim. I prefer lunar eclipses -- much quieter, no one else around, the rush of seeing the moon completely hidden and have all the stars and metorites jump out from the night. On 8x10 I photographed the entire thing, one exposure every ten minutes from about 1am to 5am. Alas, I did not compensate for the reduction of light from the moon as the eclipse progressed, and the middle several images did not have the moon showing up at all. Still a great night and lesson learned!

Then there was the time using just the back element of a TR (a bit over 710mm) on 5x7 and the shutter, being exposed to the air, froze up on me...

(image made just outside Yosemite on the way home years ago - contact print onto 3.5x5 postcard paper)