You'll notice that the actual image of the sun is completely blown. So no filter needed if you don't mind that. As far as eye protection, you could easily compose the photo by shielding the sun with your hand in front of the lens. It also appears to be a fairly wide angle lens. So if you did get a peak of the sun it would not be much if any worse than if you did so without a lens. I probably would hesitate to do so with the 400mm however! PLEASE BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR EYES! wendy beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: "Daniel J. Matyola" >Subject: Eclipse Photo
>There is a great photo of this week's eclipse on today's Astonomy Picture of >the Day: >http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html That is a brilliant photo! Wish I'd got to see it :-( There are a couple of good ones in the Spaceweather gallery too http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/eclipses/gallery_10june02.html One thing that puzzles me; The picture of the day in Daniels's link looks like it was taken normally without any filters - otherwise how else would the golden gate bridge appear on the photo? I thought that this was an absolute no-no and dangerous to the eyes to do this. Obviously I must be mistaken. Also a few of the other photos I have seen also appear to have been taken without filters. Are there any solar eclipse photographers on the list? How do you do it? Wendy ---- wendy beard ottawa, canada http://www.beard-redfern.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . Sign-up for Video Highlights of 2002 FIFA World Cup - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
