Anders Hultman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Will anyone here try to photograph the Transit of Venus that
will take
> place in some eight hours? (05:19 to 11:22 GMT)
>
> The weather forecast here in Stockholm doesn't look to good,
so I may well
> miss it, but if the sky is clear tomorrow, I will set up a
tripod and a
> 400 mm lens with proper protection.
Hi Anders,
I'll try to, although I'm not sure I'll be able to follow the
whole transit.
I did experiment an interesting setup few years ago (a solar
eclipse, maybe in 1999?) with a Tokina 600 f/8 (not a mirror
lens) plus 2x multiplier (a bit of vignetting, but with a black
background there is no way to tell...). I bought for the purpose
a series of Cokin filters including a solar one. I had to build
a mount for the filters by miself, though.
I still have to decide on which film I'll record the event.
Ciao,
Gianfranco
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