Solar Eclipse this weekend

ExpressionsOnCanvas · May 18, 2012

Hi everyone! I have been doing some research on how to photograph the solar eclipse this weekend. I live on the west coast which is supposed to get the best view of it. So i was curious on the best and cost effective way to photograph it. I read that if you use your camera it can hurt it so i was wondering about using disposal cameras just for the one night. It would be cheap and don't take a chance hurting my good camera. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

Josh

Trever1t · May 20, 2012

Interesting but it looks like the eclipse will not be visible from the Bay Area?

shuttervelocity · May 20, 2012

Trever1t said:
Interesting but it looks like the eclipse will not be visible from the Bay Area?

That's what I thought so too man. All the solar eclipse path videos/articles say to view the eclipse you'll have to travel north to Reno or Redding and was also asking my wife if she'll be intersted in taking a trip up there. But, on the news and some websites, they say we will be able to see a partial eclipse. Basically, the sun will look like a crescent moon. so, I'm all ready for it.

I want to photograph the trail of venus anyways and so I bought my welders glass and the guy who sold it to me said he's sold 400 pieces in the last 4 days! One of those idiots must be right. :lol: