Hi Folks, I have unfortunately been away for a few days (in hospital) and only saw these two subject in the digests that I have just read. Last night, Tuesday, I set up our gear in the rear garden to shoot some pics of the eclipse. I first of all tried stacking a combination of the EOS 30 - Canon 1.4 + 13mm extension tube + Canon 2x + 70-200 f2.8 and this combo would not focus to infinity. I ended up using the 70-200 f2.8 with the 2x and, I hope, I obtained some good shots using Kodak Gold 400 print film. I had the body set on 'P' for most of the shots and the shutter speed was 1/60th at f5.6 with no eclipse and up to 2 secs at totality. Now, after shooting two rolls of the 400, I inadvertently loaded Fuji Provia 100 and the shutter speeds ranged from 15secs to 4secs on the eclipse reverse. I think these shots will be of no use but I will see when they come back. Wilma had her EOS 300 + Canon 75-300 setup (ISO 200 prints film) and no focus was acheiveable at totality, neither AF nor Manual. BTW - The view we had here on the East of Scotland was just great, but all the newspapers I have seen had shots from the NW of England (Liverpool in the case of our local daily and from Manchester in one Scottish daily record). I wonder why that is? I know that our local, 'The Courier' (DC Thomson), uses EOS and it has some good photographers. Bob Turner Dundee, Scotland, U.K. Website : www.bawbee.co.uk * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
