Originally Posted by
SeAAttle
The Aug. 21 eclipse in Seattle will be
partial but still impressive.
I have never shot an eclipse and have read a bit. I know I need a solar filter, etc. My longest lens is 200mm (Nikon 18-200) and I have a 2.0 extender. Camera body is either D700 FF or D7000 cropped.
Is time lapse feasible?
Any cautions and advice would be appreciated.
As I recall, the setup for the partial phase is different than for the full phase.
For the partial phase you use the solar filter but take it off for the total phase [you can safely view a total eclipse with the naked eye]. For exposure, choose an aperture and stick with it, and you can test a corresponding shutter speed by shooting and bracketing the sun the day before the eclipse.
The best exposure for the total phase is, as I recall, a matter of choosing which features of the eclipse you wish to highlight, inner corona, outer corona, etc.
That pretty much exhausts what little I can remember about shooting an eclipse.