Solar filters for upcoming eclipse this summer

Well shoot. I'm out on a week-long road trip to try to see and capture the eclipse, all places booked. Weather reports for four days from now look like near 100% cloud cover and T-storms for Sunday and Monday. And I'm camping (because - no hotels). This looks fun. Nothing to do now but to pray to the Sky Gods.

Here is my test shot from today.


Is this what it's supposed to look like?

^ Yes. Make sure to bracket a number of shots too. Manually focus in on the edge and lock it in.

Is there ANYONE in the NW Indiana area that can sell me a 4"x4" sheet of solar film? The film I received in the mail yesterday is bad.

RKSphoto,

That image looks a little out of focus. You should be able to see the sun spots a little better. Yesterday had a string of them. https://sohowww.nascom​.nasa.gov/data/realtim​e/hmi_igr/512/

The orientation of the sun spots your pic will be different because NASA rotates the image to the sin's polar north. You should be able to resolve what NASA has in its image.

What lens are you using?

This is likely a dumb question, but can I safely use my extra pair of eclipse glasses as my lens filter? (I will make sure that the lens is fully covered except for the area where the film from the lens will be)

I did a second practice run today at the time of day that maximum eclipse will be at. I need to take the gimbal head off of my heavy tripod and use the ball head from the smaller tripod. I could not point up enough to get the sun with the gimbal. Bummer because the gimbal is a lot easier to use with the big lens.

K Soze wrote in post #18431033
I did a second practice run today at the time of day that maximum eclipse will be at. I need to take the gimbal head off of my heavy tripod and use the ball head from the smaller tripod. I could not point up enough to get the sun with the gimbal. Bummer because the gimbal is a lot easier to use with the big lens.

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Need to clean your sensor

K Soze, it looks like you're ready. Those are excellent shots. What filter are you using? It looks like you are getting around 5 stops more light than my Thousand Oaks Solar Film.

(And yes, I know... Focus issues)

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Please tell me if this is safe or not...shot this in live view and with tape on the view finder. I only viewed this via the camera touch screen to establish composition and focus.

These are legit ISO certified glasses for this 2017 eclipse. These came from the NASA booth at Oskosh airshow:

I was going to answer your previous question but you have already come up with a solution. The set up seems safe. But what do I know?

CatchingUp wrote in post #18431154
Need to clean your sensor

I don't think so. These are some regular dark spots probably magnetic fields but I might be wrong
Check this https://en.wikipedia.o​rg/wiki/Sunspot

Baader safety film

So glasses are sold out everywhere as well as filters & sheets. What kind of result could I expect if I use an Infrared converted camera. not just directly at the sun, but a landscape shot with my back to the sun as well???

My camera has the strongest conversion, B&W only.

Pigpen101 wrote in post #18431633
So glasses are sold out everywhere as well as filters & sheets. What kind of result could I expect if I use an Infrared converted camera. not just directly at the sun, but a landscape shot with my back to the sun as well???

My camera has the strongest conversion, B&W only.

Unfiltered wide angle is fine for the camera.