Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for your appreciative compliments, Larry. In some ways the images do not do justice to the experience, but there are fatures visible in the photos that are very hard to appreciate at the time, because things happen very quickly. In fact the equipment is visible in one of the images, located under the tripod which I used for the DV camera. The images of the sun were taken on an Olympus OM-3Ti using a Tamron SP 500/8 mirror lens with a Tamron SP 2x teleconverter. That gives a sun diameter of about 9mm on the 35mm frame, which tallies with the cropped images posted. Mounted on a monopod (tripod in use for DV, but the shutter speeds were not anywhere near slow). The scene setting images would have been shot using an OM-4Ti with a Tamron SP 35-105/2.8 lens. And the most important part of the equipmet - ND5.0 Baader AstroSolar filter material to shroud all lenses! As a correspondent on another photo mailing list put it to me at the time referring to a total eclipse in the late 1960s "I stood there with my mouth hanging open suddenly understanding the awe with which the ancients must have viewed this apparition. If I were to do it again I wouldn't even take a camera except maybe to shoot the crowd." He was right. Piers -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Lawrence Zeitlin Sent: 17 April 2010 01:27 To: Leica LUG Subject: [Leica] Eclipse (full, not partial) Piers, Those are magnificent eclipse pictures. I was an astrophysics major in college a long time ago and I saw plenty of eclipse pictures taken with large telescopes that were not as good as yours. What equipment did you use? Larry Z 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). _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information