[Leica] IMG: Eclipse, barely

Peter Klein pklein at threshinc.com
Fri Oct 24 00:20:36 PDT 2014


Seattle weather strikes again. The sun only came out a few minutes 
before the eclipse was over.  I had made a pinhole camera to watch it, 
and at about 4:05pm, I managed to see a tiny sliver of the sun shaved 
off. If you look hard, you can see the slight flattening of the sun's 
disk at the four o'clock position. It was actually at the ten o'clock 
position, but since I'm using a projected image, it's upside down and 
backwards.

But hey, doesn't my Pana-Leica Summilux have great bokeh?

I also used a 300mm lens stopped down to f/22 to project the sun's image 
onto my jacket sleeve.  That looked better, but I couldn't photograph 
it.  :-)  I await the vastly better pics from those of you from sunnier 
climes.

--Peter


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