How to take sun during eclipse in 20th march?

[rachi]

I have a compact camera (Canon G7X). On 20th, in a week, we will have a (partial) ecplipse of sun, in Europe.

How can i take it? Can I take it or i risk to "hurt" my sensor"? I already took the sun, even with snow around me. But I tried to be "fast". Have I to use special protection, the same I use for my eyes?

Are these special parametres I have to use? Ok, white balance in daylight. Zoom in tele if I want the sun. Low iso as possible?

 

[ARShutterbug]

Your camera's focal length is approximately 1000 mm too short. Unless you are connecting your camera to a proper lens, you won't be able to photograph the Sun with any significant quality.

There will likely be hundreds of experienced, professional photographers who have the specialised equipment necessary to do this job. You pointing a tiny, unfiltered lens at it, and resolving the object as a tiny white dot at best, isn't really worth the trouble.

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www.dailymail.co.uk

How to Photograph a Solar Eclipse

This page explains how to photograph a solar eclipse. It discusses different types of photographic techniques.

www.mreclipse.com

I suggest that you attend a watch-party where you will be around experienced observers with proper solar filters and telescopes through which to view the event.

 

[Bobby49]

First of all, a partial eclipse isn't that fantastic. The brightness of the sun will be diminished, but it is nothing at all like a total eclipse with you sitting along the path of totality.

I photographed a total eclipse many years ago, back in the days of full frame 35mm film cameras. I did the calculations and determined that I needed a focal length of approximately 1500mm, so I set about getting the optics ready. The camera had plenty of film. I acquired a large solar filter, because without that it would have been crazy. The tripod and cable release were easy.

I had studied where the path of totality should be, and I had to travel thousands of miles to get there, then I had to climb a mountain and other crazy things. I had studied the weather maps, and getting to high elevation on that mountain was the only way that I could assure that I wouldn't be "clouded out."

Since this was to be early one morning, I was up early making all of the last minute adjustments. The sun rose, and then the moon appeared to move in front of it. I started snapping away. Then, just as it went total, I removed the solar filter. If I didn't do that, I would not have been able to even find the eclipse. Totality ended, I snapped away until I finished the third roll of film. Mission complete.

Everybody else that I talked to, including professionals guiding tours, had stayed at low elevation and were clouded out.

 

[rachi]

Ok, actually I don't have the perfect equipment to take the sun.... Maybe with a filter a could take landscape during eclipse.

Thanks for the links anyway.

 

[oppy]

Give it a try! Worst-case you have crappy pics.

We had a "transit of Venus" a few years ago. I used my cell phone and the glass from a welding helmet as a filter. The pics aren't even close to professional, but I still think they're cool when I come across them. You could do lots better with a little planning and a much better camera and lens.

 

[rachi]

Ok. I'll try something with my little camera