Luna eclipse 2-20

[sparkie1263]

Don you are the man. I have to give credit where credit is due and Don has been giving me pointers along the way. I have alot more I have o look at to see if they are better.

Thanks
Frank

PS Don when is the class on solar eclipse. LOL

[DonSchap]

PS Don when is the class on solar eclipse. LOL

Frank,

Hey, I am glad to try an help. We're kind of in this together ... as interested parties to enjoy our craft. It takes real work to get some of this done ... and sometimes, it's just experimental for the fun of it. A voyage of discovery that, with the advent of digital imaging, is a heck of a lot cheaper and quicker than it used to be.

Solar Eclipses are of far shorter duration than the lunar two-and-a-half-hour panacea. That ol' Moon, she be a flyin'! You really have to have your ducks in a row to do it and I have not shot one, directly, ever. I've always used a "pinhole" projector/camera because it is far cheaper and kids love it.



The last time I was involved in it was when my son was 3 or 4-years-old (14-15 years ago). We (he and I) constructed a pinhole camera from a large cardboard box, some tape and a piece of white paper.

It was an interesting event ... once again, I was thankful it went fast, because a 3 or 4-year-old's attention span for these kinds of things was about 6/10s of a second. LOL

[sparkie1263]

I thunk I will pass on that.

[DonSchap]

Fair enough ... I'd hate to think how easily a sensor could get sizzled with all that concentrated UV light pouring down through the lens. It's one thing to smoke a frame of film ... but, the digital sensor ... that's forever!

Anyway, I found this online from the 1995 Total solar eclipse and thought it was a kind of cool looking and well-thought out exposure.



Or this one from 1999


And a close-up ...


Anyway, the next TSE ... will be Aug 1, 2008 ... but as you can see ... where you have to be to observe it is a little off the beaten path. LOL
China, Siberia, Upper Greenland ... god forbid ... The Yukon Territory of Canada! Hiya, Nick!

[sparkie1263]

Thats good enough for me. I don't think it makes that good of a picture anyway.
Thanks again
Frank

[SONYNUT]

it was -6f here... i tried but it froze me and the camera in 5 minutes

[DonSchap]

Yeah ... shooting cold-d-d-d is no f-f-f-f-fun!

I should have dropped the idea of using the TAMRON MF 200-500mm f/6.9 (Although I suppose it could just be the adapter ring-spacing that threw the focus off. Adaptall2's may be a bit susceptible to these slight variations).

Add the 2x Adaptall2 T/C and you have one monster looking 400-1000mm f/12 lens ... with a minimum focus length of nearly 10-feet ... and no infinity focus at all. This is a perfect example of "looks can be deceiving."

Makes you appreciate this lil' guy. In fact, I probably should have gone with the Tokina ATX-840 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6 instead.

It's a lot less trouble at infinity focus. Well, next time, then ... in 2010 ... a Space Oddity.