How Do You Photograph An Eclipse Of The Sun?
The few minutes of time that the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon are precious. If this is your first eclipse experience, plan on enjoying the first half of the event visually before trying to photograph it. You can always trade photographs with your new friends from the eclipse chase later. Set up your equipment early. You’ll need a tripod and cable release to minimize vibration for short exposures; a steady platform for longer exposures. Load your camera with fast (ASA 400) slide film. Use a long focal length lens ranging from 200 to 2,000 mm. Longer focal lengths won’t show the complete disk of the moon on the film, but will show details of the prominences better. Shoot a range of exposures. Use the 200mm lens for exposures of several seconds to get the outer coronal features. Shoot a range of 1/500 second to 2 seconds if you’re using a guided telescope. Save an exposure or two for the diamond ring. Use a setting of about 1/125 second to capture both the emerging sun and some of
