I think in this regard it would be very useful to trace out the its path ahead of time.In-game artwork of Pauline from Mario Kart Tour Even the slightest movement on the tripod adjustments could move the sun out of the frame.
As the sun was mostly behind clouds, there was only a few minutes to react (find sun, focus, meter exposure and remote shoot) when it peeked through. One difficulty was also unexpected: Simply finding the sun in the sky was hard for me at 500mm, and especially hard at 1000mm. At least for a moment I could believe I was in another time, peeking through bellows on large format. Without it, it was just too bright out to see the screen. I found it easier to use the camera's screen because of its 10x zoom feature, which can be really necessary to fine-tune the focus.Įither way, I found it essential to have some kind of cover hood (any jacket or fabric that lets no light through) over the screen while focusing.
#Gold lantern visor talk manual#
Sometimes a lens will focus to infinity if you turn it all the way, but you can't always count on that, especially when using a manual lens adapted to a DSLR.Īnother thought on focusing: When using Canon's EOS Utility for remote shooting, you can open the camera's live view and focus from the laptop. Focusing was a lot harder than I expected.
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Shot at 1000mm/f8 equivalent.Īs much reading as I did to prepare for how to shoot the eclipse, I still felt unprepared as the moment came around. The redder hue of this shot is simply a result of changing the white balance. In this case I noticed the equivalent-size shots without the TC were perhaps just a little sharper than the "teleconverted" companions. Also, a 2X TC will lose two f-stops of light – when shooting the very bright sun though, this aspect was not a concern. With it, you will technically have more pixels in the subject area of the frame compared to the same subject shot without it however, because a TC adds additional glass between the lens and the camera sensor, the decision will depend on the quality of that glass. Herein lies the debate about teleconverters: Why not just crop a shot to be twice as large instead of shooting with a 2x TC? It seems like it's really a trade-off based on the quality of the TC. Since the 500mm shot was cropped, it gives the impression of the sun being bigger than it really was in the frame. If no cropping were done, these shots would show the sun twice as large within the frame when compared to the sun in an uncropped 500mm shot. The latter two shots were taken with the 2x teleconverter (TC), giving 1000mm equivalent focal length. Attaching this to the lens doubled the focal length while losing two f-stops of light. And during an eclipse, black polymer is like gold. It worked, but I was at the whim of the winds, quite literally – a gust too strong would blow it off.
In haste, I didn't give myself a good way to attach the whole thing to the lens – luckily the ridge on the inset of cardboard was deep enough to simply hang on the lens. The material could then be placed between the pieces of cardboard and held together by using opposing magnets on each corner. I cut out two equally-sized pieces of cardboard and attempted a circular cut in the middle. The filter material needed some kind of apparatus to actually hold it together and attach to the lens.
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The black polymer material is a neutral density (ND) 5.0 equivalent, so it reduces the light to the sensor by 16 2/3 f-stops in simpler terms, it lets in 0.001% of the light that would reach the sensor if no material were in front of the lens.īuying a full sheet of the material on eBay was a lot cheaper than buying a specific solar filter, and also allowed me to build any size filter while having material left over to use for viewing glasses or other lenses. The filter polymer material held together between two cut-out cardboard pieces using a small neodymium magnet on each corner. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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