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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 818688" data-attributes="member: 16749"><p>Out of the last few solar eclipses, I think this is the first time anyone with better equipment, able to take better pictures, than I, got any better pictures.</p><p></p><p> One thing I still have not acquired is a suitable neutral-density filter to let me take pictures of the Sun.</p><p></p><p> A previous time or two, I used a device that I made to fit in the back of my ancient 85-205mm ƒ/3.8 Vivitar zoom lens from the late 1960s or early 1970s, with a pinhole to serve as a very small aperture.</p><p></p><p> In October of 2023, there was very heavy overcast, with, just by dumb luck, the Sun finding a thin enough spot to show through, right at the moment the eclipse was at its peak, while dimming it enough that my camera could handle it without the pinhole device. <a href="https://nikonites.com/forum/posts/811848" target="_blank">I actually wound up getting a very good image on that occasion.</a></p><p></p><p> I think on all those occasions, nobody else in this forum had good enough weather to make the attempt.</p><p></p><p> This time, I made a pinhole attachment for the front of my Vivitar lens. It doesn't seem to work an better or worse that the attachment for the back of the lens.</p><p></p><p> As I was testing my latest rig, it occurred to me, much too late to have time to build it, that what I really ought to have tried was a pinhole-only device. With the pinhole at that distance from the sensor, it could have served as the lens itself. A body cap, with a hole cut in it, a paper towel tube glued to the front of it, and a pinhole at the other end of the tube, might have worked better than what I was doing; just the pinhole itself, without all the glass in the way.</p><p></p><p> Anyway, here's my sequence from first contact to last contact.</p><p></p><p> [ATTACH=full]403996[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 818688, member: 16749"] Out of the last few solar eclipses, I think this is the first time anyone with better equipment, able to take better pictures, than I, got any better pictures. One thing I still have not acquired is a suitable neutral-density filter to let me take pictures of the Sun. A previous time or two, I used a device that I made to fit in the back of my ancient 85-205mm ƒ/3.8 Vivitar zoom lens from the late 1960s or early 1970s, with a pinhole to serve as a very small aperture. In October of 2023, there was very heavy overcast, with, just by dumb luck, the Sun finding a thin enough spot to show through, right at the moment the eclipse was at its peak, while dimming it enough that my camera could handle it without the pinhole device. [URL='https://nikonites.com/forum/posts/811848']I actually wound up getting a very good image on that occasion.[/URL] I think on all those occasions, nobody else in this forum had good enough weather to make the attempt. This time, I made a pinhole attachment for the front of my Vivitar lens. It doesn't seem to work an better or worse that the attachment for the back of the lens. As I was testing my latest rig, it occurred to me, much too late to have time to build it, that what I really ought to have tried was a pinhole-only device. With the pinhole at that distance from the sensor, it could have served as the lens itself. A body cap, with a hole cut in it, a paper towel tube glued to the front of it, and a pinhole at the other end of the tube, might have worked better than what I was doing; just the pinhole itself, without all the glass in the way. Anyway, here's my sequence from first contact to last contact. [ATTACH type="full"]403996[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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