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mdees88 wrote:
I like your taste in color, what filter did you use? That's crazy how it worked fine all the way up until totality. So your totality shot was 400mm on a FF? I guess that image is cropped a good bit too? As of now, I'm planning on shooting 500mm on my FF and either 400mm or maybe 560mm on my crop body (640-896mm effective). I just do not want to be too zoomed in when totality hits and cut off the edges of the corona. Your totality image looks good as far as scale, about as tight as I would like mine to be.
I just looked at some hotels, man you're not kidding, especially around the bigger cities. I'm undecided on where I'm going and honestly, I won't decide until a day or two before based purely on cloud cover. I'm 8-9hrs from Texas, anywhere in Arkansas, and Missouri so I have a lot of options. I'm going to scope out some hotels near my top locations tomorrow but I'll likely be staying outside of the path and drive to my setup spot early in the morning and wait. I picked a hotel directly in the path during the last one but I had to drive over 2 hours NW the morning of to get out from under the clouds and I luckily got setup 2 minutes before it started. I won't be anywhere near "forecasted" clouds this time.
I don't think another total eclipse will happen in the continental US for 20+ years after April 8th. I'm definitely going to be running two setups, just in case. The benefit of that astrosolar photo film I mentioned is the ability to shoot handheld. So after I shot with my primary setup, I just picked the other one up and rattled off about 15 shots at each 5min interval. I had no intention of using any images from my backup camera, I just had an extra camera and lens so I used them. But due to operator error on the primary setup, the handheld shots turned out better than most of my others. Perhaps you know someone that has a sigma 150-600 or another 400mm lens you might could borrow in April. Just a thought.
You never mentioned if you had an extra crop sensor camera. If not, instead of buying a canon teleconverter or trying the kenko again, I would skip using a TC altogether and buy a used 24mp Canon T6i for $150-200. I feel like this option would give you better image quality than if you used either teleconverter or cropped in on the 5d mk iii from 400mm. You could sell it after the eclipse if you want. (If I wanted to buy a crop body to keep and use for other purposes, I would get a used 80D).
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Looks like Red Slough NWR is on or pretty close to the maximum duration. Peak is more end of April but bird migration is going on then and it's a great birding area so I might go up there. Your super teles could do double duty 
Might be some hotels in the smaller towns if Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio are full? Texarkana etc might have something, have you tried sulphur springs, Mt Pleasant, or other random along I-20, I-30, etc? could check locally here if you are interested even Shreveport isn't more than a couple hours or so I'd think
@CosmicCruiser from Memphis I'd be looking at driving NW to Jonesboro, AR or something if hotels are a pain, Memphis isn't really too far off the path of totality. Looks like about 1:27 pm 68° elevation at totality (but double check to be sure.) Hot Springs area might have a good area to view from, lots of camping in the general area, have you tried Little Rock?
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