For the 1999 eclipse I bought some sheets of mylar (I think) which can be used to photograph eclipses as a very high density ND filter. In the event the clouds got in the way, and in the short space when the sun was visible I photographed the images which my brother was projecting onto a piece of card through a telescope.
If I remember correctly I photographed a partial eclipse through the same or similar filters, but used the camera and lens to project the image onto a card, so I wasn't looking directly at the sun but could see what was happening and open the shutter. The pictures weren't very good. This is a specialist activity and you need to take advice from specialists about it, otherwise you risk melting your own eyeballs, to say nothing of damaging your cameras. B > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > John Celio > Sent: 29 May 2012 19:32 > To: [email protected] > Subject: How to photograph the transit of Venus? > > I want to try photographing the transit of Venus across the sun on June > 5th, but I've never tried shooting the sun before. Any of you guys have > tips you can share? Is there a special filter I should use, or would a > polarizer or ND filter be sufficient? I'm planning on using my K 500mm > f4.5, so I'll probably need to special order a large enough filter, and > I'll need to do that soon. > > Thanks, > John > > P.S.: Hey Aussie PDMLers, I loved your country! Just got home last > Friday. I hope I get to go back to Australia soon, especially to see > the outback and more of Tasmania. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
