Solar filters for upcoming eclipse this summer

thanks...thought that might be the case.

Here is the set up.

Just use an adjustment fill layer. This was white taken with 400 5.6 L on 7D.
Don

Thousand Oaks Solarite film produces the orangish color as well. No color adjustments on this aside from some exposure / highlight adjustments.

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CatchingUp wrote in post #18423003
I have a question for you....I've been practicing with a solar filter...using my 70-200 with 1.4ext on a 7D body for crop factor help. My test shots of the sun have come out white. Nothing with the color tint you show here. Am I not shooting fast enough?

You are using a filter media that doesn't artificially color the sun. In other words, your pictures are the correct color and everyone who's showing a yellow sun is wrong. The sun is, after all, our very definition of white light.

We all instinctively feel the sun should be yellow in pictures for two reasons. First, the sun feels warm. All the other things that feel warm in our environment (candles, fires, electric stove coils, etc) happen to be cold (compared to the sun), so we see them as yellow orangey colors. Second, the only time you really look at the sun (even though you're still really not looking right at it) is sunset/sunrise, when the sunlight is passing through a tremendous extra amount of air, which causes it to become very warm in color. In fact, those two reasons are almost certainly also the reason we all instinctively associate red-orange-yellow with the word warm even though yellow comes from a far colder source than blue.

So, it's your choice whether to present a truthfully-colored sun (basically white, maybe slightly cool of white) or a sun that feels right (yellow-orange).

NASA: What color is the sun?
A good read!

I bought the orange T.O. filter mainly because I like the color.

Ive been so busy with work that I thought a week prior would be OK to purchase a solar filter and boooooooy was I wrong!
Amazon has spoiled me and now its failing me. I literally can't find anything!
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please direct me to any links of any filters. Im having the hardest time finding anything besides ND filters that will actually ship in time
Thanks in advance!

nsakis1 wrote in post #18426833
Ive been so busy with work that I thought a week prior would be OK to purchase a solar filter and boooooooy was I wrong!
Amazon has spoiled me and now its failing me. I literally can't find anything!
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please direct me to any links of any filters. Im having the hardest time finding anything besides ND filters that will actually ship in time
Thanks in advance!

You can purchase solar filter sheets on amazon, and as of this morning several appear to be in stock, and prime shipping available.
You can cut a square slightly bigger than your lens hood, and tape it to your lens hood.
If you live in, or going to be in the path of totality you can simply remove lens hood during totality. Tony Northrup has a video on youtube about using solar sheet.

Link to amazon.
https://www.amazon.com …ywords=Solar+fi​lter+sheet

This place has filters still. Measure your lens and you can get one that mounts month front http://www.highpointsc​ientific.com

So I tested out my Daystar filter with my 70-200mm

Worked ok. But 200mm is way too short even on my APS-C mirrorless cam!

The crop is at or near 100%!

That said, I have to be at work on Monday in San Francisco and the weather forecast calls for Party to mostly cloudy conditions

mizouse wrote in post #18427737
So I tested out my Daystar filter with my 70-200mm

Worked ok. But 200mm is way too short even on my APS-C mirrorless cam!

The crop is at or near 100%!

That said, I have to be at work on Monday in San Francisco and the weather forecast calls for Party to mostly cloudy conditions

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If its windy, how will that filter stay on?

That is a nice picture...what is so wrong with 200mm?

I'm going to have several set ups...but one will be my 70-200 with a 1.4 extender on a 7D body. It will have the solar filter on it and my plan is to have it firing a sequence of shots to capture the whole sequence of the eclipse. I don't want too tight a crop to allow some movement. When we have total blackout, I'll have my 400 honed in to capture that.

Yea the filter I got last month is a tad big. The one that fits better was sold out. So I figured a bit bigger is better than too small.

The image is ok, but it's pretty much a 100% crop so I won't be getting any more detail like sun spots and stuff. I think

All set for the eclipse.

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I've used this DIY: http://www.instructabl​es.com …-effective-filters-solar/
Tried it yesterday and here's the result (Sigma 150-600 C, f/6.3, 1/640, ISO 2000 at 600mm), handheld: