Photographing the Eclipse? Don't MELT your Camera!steemCreated with Sketch.

in #photography • 7 years ago

I wrote a tutorial a few weeks ago about how to photograph the upcoming eclipse. In that tutorial I talked about the importance of using a solar filter and shared the filter I used. Check out my tutorial here.

As it happens Everything Photography on Youtube made a video that Peta Pixel has shared in a post to demonstrate the kind of damage that can be done to your camera if you don't protect it with a proper filter:

It only takes a matter of minutes to melt through the shutter and obliterate the sensor in your camera!

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ouch!

So be sure to get adequate protection for your camera! Get a solar filter! I used this one.


Sources
Peta Pixel Article
Everything Photography

My Solar Eclipse Tutorial:
https://steemit.com/photography/@fiftysixnorth/tutorial-how-to-photograph-a-solar-eclipse


The shots I got from the 2015 Eclipse

Full Sequence from 2015 - High Resolution version

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     7 years ago 

    Wow I had no idea about this! Thanks for sharing!

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      My pleasure! :)

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       7 years ago 

      That clearly illustrates the damage very expressively :)

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         7 years ago 

        Yeah they're not screwing around in that video :) Its an expensive mistake to make!

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           7 years ago 

          let's hope their video pays off for the destroyed equipment :)

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             7 years ago 

            lol! I'm sure it will :) The camera body they destroyed was a cheaper model anyway, so it was probably not that bad for them!

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             7 years ago 

            oh my, that is painful to watch 😣

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               7 years ago 

              awful isn't it :) I'd be inconsolable if it happened to me!

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               7 years ago 

              I don't even want to think about it 😅

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               7 years ago 

              Wish we could view the eclipse form Cape Town!

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                 7 years ago 

                Maybe one day you will! :) If not you can always use your steemit riches to travel somewhere where you can :) That's what I intend to do .. though it might take some time before that happens!

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                   7 years ago 

                  Very true! I don't think it will take all that long... Lets see how things go here on steemit!

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                     7 years ago 

                    Hopefully you are right and it won't. Just need to be patient and persevere :)

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