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eclipse

  • 08-07-2010 9:40pm
    #1
    NoQuarter
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    Hi all,

    in french polynesia at the moment and there is a total eclipse on sunday, i have a nikon d60 and want to take a few pics so do i need to know anything??

    Can i damage the lense??

    thanks.


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  • #2
    charybdis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 802 ✭✭✭charybdis


    The lens will be fine but you should probably be aware that leaving an uncapped lens pointed at the full or partially obscured sun will (particularly with the increased magnification of a telephoto lens) focus a lot of light on whatever happens to be in the path of the light behind the lens: your eye in the viewfinder, your shutter (if using mirror lock up), your sensor.

    If you want to take a picture of totality you should probably have your camera and lens set up on a tripod, pointed at the sun, with the lens capped, set to manual focus and infinity, and a preliminary exposure dialled in to the camera in manual mode, probably something along the lines of 1/250 f/8 ISO 400. You'll want to use the longest lens you have, 300mm on a crop sensor would probably be enough. Be prepared to change your exposure quickly based on the histogram from your first image of totality; it doesn't look like the D60 has exposure bracketing, so you're going to have to dial in exposure offsets manually.

    You could also take pictures of things other than the totality, but having been within the path of a total eclipse before, I can tell you it's effectively like night falling for a few minutes so there's probably not all that much you can do without specialised equipment than you couldn't have done at night.

    This was recently posted on the topic of photographing eclipses and is probably worth reading although it's probably far more information than you require.

    If you're not feeling up to the technical challenges of photographing it, you might want to use take a cursory photo or two as mementoes and enjoy the experience.


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