Photographing the Eclipse? Don't MELT your Camera!

[fiftysixnorth]

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!

^ouch!

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

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Sources
Peta Pixel Article
Everything Photography

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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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[kuenok]

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

[fiftysixnorth]

My pleasure! :)

[bescouted]

That clearly illustrates the damage very expressively :)

[fiftysixnorth]

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

[bescouted]

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

[fiftysixnorth]

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!

[anna-redhead]

oh my, that is painful to watch 😣

[fiftysixnorth]

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

[anna-redhead]

I don't even want to think about it 😅

[longfield98]

Wish we could view the eclipse form Cape Town!

[fiftysixnorth]

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!

[longfield98]

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

[fiftysixnorth]

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