the eclipse

I have a series like these taken every few minutes between first bite and maximum coverage. I find that they were all at least three stops overexposed but that was easily fixed in Lightroom. They were all taken on a Leica 100-400 zoom at 200mm (400mm equivalent on m4/3)) at 1600ISO and f5.6 with exposures of around 1/5 second, although at maximum coverage it was 1.6 second. After maximum coverage I took a few with the lens at 400mm (800mm eq) and they are unsharp and basically unusable! I'm sure there's a lesson there somewhere! Now I'm wondering what to do with them all! Can anyone recommend a simple way of doing composites?

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alan72 said:
Apologies did not realise there was a separate thread.

The eclipse over the Diana fountain. Sequence shot at 50mm with a 10 stop nd.

The close ups were taken with a sigma 150-600 with 1.4 teleconverter and a K&F solar nd20.

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That sequence is great. The sort of thing I guess many of us were hoping for.
 
The recent Partial Solar Eclipse down on the prom. Wasn't chancing frying the Z9 sensor so went for the kit I used last time I did this up in Cromarty in a past life. Nikon D850 and the old Nikon 300mm F/4 with x1.4TC. Worked well.

1. Folk in funny spex.
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2. Coming
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3. Here
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4. Going
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I have to admit being a bit disapppointed, the light change was just like light clouds passing.
I did play about with an older phone I have and got an interesng result :LOL:

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jerry12953 said:
Very Blue Peter..........
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Very Blue Peter indeed, what an insult, there was not a toilet or kitchen roll in sight!:ROFLMAO:

TimHughes said:
very cool, can we see the setup?
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Sure here you go:


Sony Nex3 - Homemade 3d printed adaptor, 2 black vacuum cleaner tubes (stuck to adapter with gaffer tape - I crossed fingers! Used a 3d printed plate I had made with pinhole 0.6mm stuck at the end held on with hot glue gun - light leaks covered with black tape. According to the calculations pinhole should be about 1.2mm but I only thought about a having a go at 6pm so I used what I had already made and bodged them together.

It worked quite well, very hard to actually get the sun in the shot (700mm on aps is really about 1000mm although thinking about it probably does not apply to a pinhole) only had to move it a fraction and the screen was black and it wobbled like a jelly. The aperture was around F1200 shutter speeds ranged from 1/2000 to 1/30. Shot through the bathroom window, roller blind helped stop me going blind!

Camera on a tripod, vacuum tubes propped up on an old t-shirt left resting on the window ledge left hand helped stop the wobble - a bit!
And Bobs your uncle…
 
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