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Can anyone recommend a solar filter for my 52mm dia Fujifilm X-A5 camera, please, for captuting the annular partial solar eclipse in a couple weeks' time? Tx
Thank you Jannyfox for your comprehensive instructions. I think however the last bit has put me off as I'm not great with craft-y things/DIY and I don't fancy damaging my eyes.Be very careful. The slightest tear or hole in the film could damage both your eye and the camera.
Our local forecast now gives 45% cloud for the time of the eclipse (building later on to 99% during the afternoon). At least there should be some wind so with luck the sun will be visible on & off throughout. It only reaches ~20% eclipsed for me, so won't be really dramatic.Oh dear, next-day forecast is still overcast
That was exactly what happened for us in 1999, we were in Verdun so only about 50km from you, cloud cover during the run up (the camp site emptied as people dash for clear skies) then cleared just before the peak action.I went to France some years ago to see the full eclipse. It was cloudy near Reims but as the eclipse began all the clouds went, apparently that is quite normal so you could be lucky.
I have a solar telescope (Lunt) that I haven't used in a while, might pull it out just in case for tomorrow. Always wanted to get some photos with a camera attached to it but never got around to it, must give it a try...
At least I was a bit luckier, the sun was visible for most of the build up, with thick cloud moving over the sun just after 11am (10 minutes before local maximum, this mostly cleared around the time of maximum coverage. After deleting the very worst efforts I have about 100 shots to go through, mainly taken between 1000mm f/11 & 2000mm f/16 I did take a few zoomed in more, & a handfull with a AF 400mm. I don't think I had a single shot without cloud visible or any that showed sun spots (quite a few showing sensor muck though).Oh well, one tiny brief break in the cloud and I saw the sun through my solar viewing specs and I *think* I saw partial cover but TBH I can't be sure. British weather at its best
I will have been the cloud. Even in NW Scotland - which got the most coverage, the maximum was only ~40% of the diameter of the sun, somewhere around 30% of it's area. With a relatively gradual change there's no way a human could detect such a minor darkening. Even light cloud has a greater effect.May have been a bit darker here during the eclipse but it could just have been thicker cloud going over.
Well done!I was blessed with a gap in the clouds and got a bit reckless
squinted and looked through a Lee 10 stop
pretty obvious that the moon was there obscuring the top section of the currant bun
Dave
Hopefully some good shots!At least I was a bit luckier, the sun was visible for most of the build up, with thick cloud moving over the sun just after 11am (10 minutes before local maximum, this mostly cleared around the time of maximum coverage. After deleting the very worst efforts I have about 100 shots to go through, mainly taken between 1000mm f/11 & 2000mm f/16 I did take a few zoomed in more, & a handfull with a AF 400mm. I don't think I had a single shot without cloud visible or any that showed sun spots (quite a few showing sensor muck though).
From 11.30 cloud cover here has been total.
Even with the ISO bumped up to 8000, I was often getting shutter speeds below 1/25s - it was tempting to just take the solar filter off.
I don't think I achieved anything more than record shots, all a little softHopefully some good shots!