As far as I know, yes. They are all a little different. This was a good one because its path crossed so much of the USA it was easy for a lot of people to see. It also had good totality duration, not all do, due to where the moon is.
It's said that the 2045 eclipse in USA will be a super-duper. Totalities up to 6 minutes. I don't plan on being around to see it, tho.
It's said that the 2045 eclipse in USA will be a super-duper. Totalities up to 6 minutes. I don't plan on being around to see it, tho.
I remember seeing one here in the late 90s, it wasn't total and it was a bit cloudy but that meant could look straight at it, it was still impressive. Puts things into perspective 😉
Thinnest sliver is about the max we got at about 93%. Camera hack: Analog photo negatives meet digital camera. 3 layers of the darkest frames that I have filtered the light...other pic shows crescent shadows of round holes of a coriander.
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Nice! I remember using the dark ends of color negatives for eclipse filters back in the 1980s. Where did you end up for exposure?
Also remember watching one thru the very dark brown, but still transparent, sun visor of our old VW bug.
Also remember watching one thru the very dark brown, but still transparent, sun visor of our old VW bug.
Pano, if you can make it to the 2040's, we're supposed to have a 1.07 total straight down the middle of FL. I was working outside in the Orlampa area yesterday myself.. the ability of light is underestimated!
The new FZ-1000 cost more than I wanted to spend, and was purchased so that I can blow stuff up on 4K video! Look for a couple of melting vacuum tubes in the near future. This was the third eclipse that I can remember seeing, so I wasn't going to risk the new camera. I did take a picture of the TV that was connected to the telescope. It didn't turn out too good due to all the reflections.
There was a guy there with a DSLR who successfully got pictures through a welding filter by setting his ASA (ISO) to 60, manual focus, automatic exposure with shutter priority.
It looks like we will be on the edge of totality for 2024. A short drive puts us in the middle of it.......I haven't been to Cleveland yet....no I'll go somewhere else less popular.
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Could lent you a bunch of ND (neutral, density) filters -- but mine are bayonet mount for an 80mm Schneider lens for Rollei!
ND filters don't diffuse the light (diffusing reduces contrast, thus apparent sharpness) so for maximum sharpness you can use the optimal f/stop of your lense.
Gave up on wet-chemistry photography 15 years ago, and I miss it!
Happy you in 2024!
We have to wait till 2045... I will be 88 then...
Nothing bad happens with the camera, except saturated picture. I am pretty sure.
Here is the picture I took with my cellphone through a welding masc, without a filter it saturated wildly:
We have to wait till 2045... I will be 88 then...
Nothing bad happens with the camera, except saturated picture. I am pretty sure.
Here is the picture I took with my cellphone through a welding masc, without a filter it saturated wildly:
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I can't see what damage a severe light overload could do to a slab of silicon, but I wasn't planning to test my theory with a camera that had a total of 3 pictures on it before my trip to the park.
Despite the eclipse, I had hoped to take several pictures and different settings, and from close up macros to maximum zoom telephotos, but it was one of those sweltering hot hazy days that suck the contrast out of tele shots.
After reviewing my pictures from the day in the park I found that while chasing a drone across the distant sky I managed to take two pictures of the sun. The sun is too washed out to see the missing part despite it being 10 minutes before the 88% peak in the first picture, and two minutes after in the second. The drone and bird remained properly exposed.
I have two opposing thoughts on that.
I had my own darkroom for color negatives (C41 Kodacolor -> Ektacolor 74 paper in trays) and my neighbor had a darkroom set up for printing slides on Cibachrome in a drum. We used each others stuff, and often used a local lab for developing the film only. At $1.50 per 36 exposure C41 roll it didn't pay to develop your own film unless you had a lot to do at once. Kodachrome could never be developed outside a Kodak lab. We could do Ektachrome in drums. I loved the whole "photographer" experience. I had several cameras up to 6 X 9 CM, but I mostly used an old Ricoh SLR, a newish Canon Rebel, and a 6 X 6 Yashicamat TLR. The camera shop where we bought chemicals and paper discontinued those materials around 2000 and folded a year or two later.
Even with our cost containments there was a finite cost every time you pushed that shutter button, so you took the time to carefully think about each shot. I would go out on a picture taking trip for several hours and come back with maybe 100 shots, make contact sheets, and print from a few to a dozen pictures. When My daughter was on a competitive dance team I would take several hundred pictures at each show just to get 5 or 10 excellent "Kodak Moments" Chasing a dancing, jumping, acrobatic kid across a stage while manipulating the focus and zoom rings can waste a lot of film, but the dance center had dozens of my photos and posters on the wall and it helped spur new business. We dropped about $20K in her last competitive year in travel, costumes and other expenses. About $1000 of that was for pictures, about half of which was recouped by selling pictures.......you want pictures like this if your kid? OK, you pay for the film and processing. Anything larger than 16 X 20 came from the local lab, and wasn't cheap in the 1990's.
The digital world has reduced the cost per click to ZERO. There is no cost associated with pushing the button, so I will shoot anything. I may take 1000 pictures in a day, but get more than a dozen good ones. The cost per print is now 10 to 20 cents per 8 X 10 so I make more of them too.
Taking 1000 pictures to capture a lightning strike or a wheels up dragstrip launch just wouldn't have happened in the darkroom days. In a photo trip today I will carry one or two cameras and my pockets are full of batteries and SD cards instead of rolls of film.
Note that these pictures have been resized for posting and a lot of detail and resolution were lost....the MP3's of the photo world! The race track photos were taken 14 years ago with a primitive camera.
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I think the issue with the image sensor is the thermal heating of a small area due to focus of the sun.
Most if not all cameras have IR Filters to help protect the sensor, but I don't think they are rated for direct sun photography.
Most camera manufacturers caution against it.
Most if not all cameras have IR Filters to help protect the sensor, but I don't think they are rated for direct sun photography.
Most camera manufacturers caution against it.
If you get to Cleveland before 2024 stop in at:
Electronic Surplus - Electrical, Electronics & Electromechanical Supplies
It's the kind of shop that you would enjoy.
The guys from the ham radio club at Ignatius were frequenters of Electronic Surplus when it was on Bolivar! I would take the youngsters there to wander around and buy a $10 "junk box" for them to have at when they got back to their gram's.
Before Mentor, they were on Broadway near Slavic Village.
@George -- got rid of my last gallon of Cibachrome "Bleach" before we moved. I don' think that there's any photo reproduction as beautiful as a C-chrome print.
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We were not so lucky over here, but we had a beautiful full eclipse in 1999. Our company team was on a ship on the lake, "Here Comes the Sun" from Beatles was playing over and over until... The ship stopped, the music ceased. There was full silence, we had night at noon. It was an unforgettable moment of my life.
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