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> 2. A 600-800mm lens is optimal for photography. Anything short of 200mm is useless. Only if your goal is a closeup shot. I'd be much more interested in a sh
by abruzzi 9y ago
> 2. A 600-800mm lens is optimal for photography. Anything short of 200mm is useless.
Only if your goal is a closeup shot. I'd be much more interested in a shot with significant context. How easy that is to pull off I don't know, but I'd love to a nature landscape shot @28-35mm (FF) with the eclipse in the sky instead of the sun or moon.
- geerlingguy 9y agoThe sun is like 1000x brighter than any object you'd be able to get in the foreground. If you just want a shot during the totality with the corona, it would be possible to get it and expose some other things a little bit (though you will probably need to increase exposure quite a bit...). But if you want any of the partial phases, you need a solar filter (not just ND filters), and that thing basically blacks out anything that's not the sun.
- throwanem 9y agoYou could do something with multiple exposures and a filter swap, but you'd need to use care in making the exposure without the solar filter - maybe a handheld card to keep the sun out of the lens. If you've got a drop-in filter holder that can take a solar filter, it'd be a lot easier than using thread-mounted ones.