Partial solar eclipse today. Not having any suitable filter material I had to resort to building a pinhole camera for indirect observation of the sun:
This is what it looked like inside the pinhole camera.
Note that the projected image from the pinhole was a bit more focused than that, but not having three hands I tried to hold the box at the right orientation, hold the A7 inside the box at the approximate distance that I prefocused for … didn't work out so well but you get the idea.
Both shots taken with A7 and EL-Nikkor 50 2.8 N. SOOC, cropped.
rji2goleez wrote:
Damn, I was almost going to make the road trip north to get a good view . . . I knew I should have! Nice image!
You definitely should have! The most sustained activity I've ever seen. Powerful too - I could see green pillars from the middle of town in Duluth around 8:30 as I drove to pick up a friend.
I'm still blown away by the fact that the numbers stayed so high for as long as they did. The place I shot these was hopping - 15-20 cars at the lake I went to that night, MPR interviewing folks, etc. I need to scout out more places, at some point you're taking the same shot and wanting to go elsewhere, but driving around in the dark looking for an interesting landscape frame, etc is generally a bad idea.
ebookman wrote:
SONY FE 24-240mm f/3.5-6.3 on A7s The last shot was 6.3 wide open. The lens, appears to me, to be surprisingly sharp for a super zoom. I think I am going to stop reading graphs and charts.
I think your marvellous images say at all without any need for charts - wouldn't like to get stuck out at night there and have to feel my way home! John
with perfect weather, no cam out !
