[Leica] Partial eclipse (was - Anyone seen the conjunction?)

[piers.hemy at gmail.com (piers@hemy.org)]

Not a partial, and not the pinhole effect, and not using on-topic equipment,
but a few snaps - scanned, cropped slides (Velvia, as far as I recall) of
totality in Turkey in 2006.

http://www.hemy.me.uk/Eclipse/index.html

In contrast to New York, it seemed that everybody was looking skywards. It's
an experience to be recommended, looking up (eclipse) down (shimmering
pinhole effect) and around (360 degrees of sunset).

On 16 April 2010 15:32, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Vince,
>
> The partial eclipse pics were scanned from a shoebox full of prints I had
> on
> a closet shelf. So the film must have been print film. The date is
> approximate. I had just gotten a first edition Rollei 35 and was learning
> how to guesstimate focus. That probably accounts for the less than razor
> sharp images. The most interesting thing was that even though eclipses and
> partial eclipses are visible in New York only about once every 20 years, no
> one was bothering to look. It takes a lot to grab New Yorker's attention.
>
> Larry Z
>
>
> - - - - - -
>
>
> Larry,
>
>
> Is it slide or print film, can you remember that much? The color has held
> up
>
> amazingly well.
>
>
> Vince
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
>
> Dave R wrote
>
>
> "Nice photo, Doug. Somewhere I've got a photo that I took (using a Leica
>
> M4) about 20 years ago during a partial solar eclipse. I was in Salt
>
> Lake City at the time. I didn't photograph the actual eclipse. I just
>
> photographed the shadow of a tree during the eclipse.
>
>
> What was strange about the image was that the shadow from each leaf
>
> appeared to have a little notch cut out of it, as a result of the
>
> eclipse. I once saw a similar photo that Ansel Adams had taken years
>
> ago. It wasn't the kind of photo you'd hang on a wall, but it showed the
>
> somewhat bizarre terra manifestation of a solar eclipse. If I can ever
>
> find the negative I'll scan it. Or if someone else has one, I'd like to
>
> see it. Like I said, it's really bizarre."
>
>
> - - - - - -
>
>
> Do you mean pictures like this?
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Partial+Solar+Eclipse.jpg.html
>
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Partial+eclipse+detail.jpg.html
>
>
>
> They were taken during a partial solar eclipse visible in New York in 1969.
>
> The images were formed by sunlight passing through gaps between the leaves
>
> of a tree, each gap acting like a tiny pinhole camera. As you can see the
>
> average New Yorker is pretty blase about astronomical happenings. The
>
> camera
>
> was my ever ready Rollei 35. I don't recall what the film was.
>
>
>
> Larry Z
>
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