Olaf,
this shop in Germany has all the right filters. The site is in German,
though:
http://www.intercon-spacetec.com/
I ordered an ICS filter there yesterday. Some days ago, John Petrush (sp?)
and Richard... from England had good postings about eclipse shooting.
greetings,
Thomas
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Olaf Greve <Ogreve@xxxxxxx>
An: 'olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Datum: Mittwoch, 7. Juli 1999 18:27
Betreff: [OM] Total eclipse & Sunfilters?
>Hi,
>
>As (some of) you may be aware, August 11th there will be a total solar
>eclipse in the north of France, the south of England (possibly also the
>south of Ireland?), the very south of Belgium, the south of Germany, and
>scores of other places towards Asia.
>
>I read an article about the eclipse, and there were some pointers for
taking
>pictures of (a.o.) the corona of the sun, and the eclipse in general.
>
>At the moment I'm thinking about using the following:
>OM-4Ti + Zuiko 300/4.5 + Olympus 2xA TC
>
>Now, the article mentioned the usage of sunfilters for the lens (so looking
>at the sun through 600mm won't be the last thing you'll see for the rest of
>your life). I'm wondering, however, what these filters exactly are and in
>what format they're availablle. A few years ago a Dutch popular science
>magazine distributed special free "glasses" with the magazine. These
glasses
>had some sort of foil which looked like aluminium foil and which allowed
you
>to look directly at the sun. I'm now wondering if this is the kind of
>"filter" they refer to in the article (i.e. taping such a piece of foil to
>the front of the lens) or if they were really referring to screw mount
>sunfilters. Since this is a one time occasion I want the pictures to be as
>good as possible, but I also don't feel like spending a big wad of dough on
>an expensive 72mm filter which otherwise will probably hardly ever be used
>again.
>
>If anyone knows anything about such filters and/or has some other
>suggestions for taking pictures of an eclipse, please let me know, then I
>can fully prepare myself.
>
>Also, would these kind of shots work out nicely with a 500/8 reflex + Oly
>2xA TC? I currently don't have a mirror lens, but if it would be a better
>combo than the 300/4.5 + 2xA, I might go a bit more out of my way to track
>one down...
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Olafo
>
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