eclipse photography

sorabji.com: I need advice: eclipse photography
By Cyst on Monday, August 2, 1999 - 04:23 pm:

    anyone have any advice on how to take photos of a solar sclipse?

By Waffleboy on Monday, August 2, 1999 - 04:39 pm:

    long long long exposures, you will need a telephoto lense, ideally 200mm+ and a cable release, however it's not recommended you point your lense at any portion of the sun for any amount of time, it could burn your lense outta wack. There may be special covers you can use to which I am unsure of

    when I photographed Hale-Bopp, though to the naked eye it wasn't impressive, i used a 400mm lense and left the shutter open (using a cable release for about 5 minutes so it absorbed all of the light, the pictures came out more impressive then the view with the naked eye...good luck though

By Cyst on Monday, August 2, 1999 - 05:05 pm:

    I think I give up already. I dented my lens, so I can't put a filter on it. and eclipse photography might be a little postcardish for me anyway. I don't like to take the same exact picture as zillions of others, because theirs will probably turn out better and be available for purchase anyway. (plus, I don't have my cable release or tripod with me.)

    maybe I'll do the pinhole-in-piece-of-cardboard thing and shoot the projection of the image of a partial sun on a piece of cardboard. or whatever.

By Waffleboy on Monday, August 2, 1999 - 05:21 pm:

    yeah i was thinking about it some more on my walk at lunch, you may not need a cable release since it's a lunar eclipse, if it were lunar, then you definitely would, tripod would be essential.....yeah I kinda of shy away from postcard images as well, it's too predictable...

By FETIDBEAVER on Monday, August 2, 1999 - 05:38 pm:

    Do you know about the Perseid Meteor Shower coming
    soon. I thought if I timed my route correctly I
    can be in the moutains to see it. Here's a site in
    case you want info.
    http://
    web.infoave.net/~meteorobs/