1st: enjoy the experience. Don't be fretting with equipment.
2nd: you REALLY need a proper solar filter until totality to protect your
sensor and your eyes. For
a timelapse, if you want to follow the sun, you need a telescope "equatorial"
mount with a motor,
or leave room for the sun's movement.
3rd: In totality, I will be handholding a telephoto at 1/1000 or shorter.
Weather history & much more - see http://eclipsophile.com/
tOM
On 14 Aug 2017 at 12:09 re:"[OM] Upcoming total solar eclipse i..."
Dean Hansen(Dean Hansen <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) wrote:
> Hi all,
> How many OM Listers will be able to take in the total solar
> eclipse in
> a week? My wife will be visiting her sister near Nashville, TN, and
> will see totality of two minutes and forty seconds. I plan on being
> somewhere on the sagebrush flats of Wyoming not too far from
> Casper--I'll get two minutes and thirty seconds of totality. Should
> be a thrilling 2:30, indeed!
> Any camera suggestions? I'll have my Canon 1014 XLS Super 8
> movie
> camera on a tripod, and I plan on setting the exposure manually for
> whatever it should be for full daylight and then have the camera do
> its magic single frame per second (or five, or ten, or whatever
> seconds) and get a two plus hour record of the darkening and then
> lightening of the Wyoming landscape compressed into a couple minutes
> of filming. Gotta do the math, here, Deano. I'm thinking of pointing
> the camera to the south, with a fairly wide angle setting, and record
> what happens on the landscape. I'll leave a time-lapse of the moon's
> actual crossing of the sun to the pros.
> So when totality comes, what then? My 60-300 Tammy at 300 on the
> OM
> 4T and pointed right at the sun? Any ND filter? Or just say screw it
> and simply stand back and be awed by something I'll never see again?
> Whatcha going to be doing next Monday, folks?
> Digest Dean
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