A total eclipse of the sun photography standard exposure list

F value← low Sensitivity sensitivity film(ISO) high sensitivity →
F 2.5ISO -ISO -ISO -ISO -ISO -ISO - Total Solar Eclipse Photo
F 4 - -2550100200
F 5.6 -2550100200400
F 8 2550100200400800
F 11 501002004008001600
F 16 10020040080016003200
F 22 20040080016003200 -
A diamond ring and
Photography of prominence		 1/125s
1/60s		 1/250s
1/125s		 1/500s
1/250s		 1/1000s
1/500s		 1/2000s
1/1000s		 1/4000s
1/2000s		 diamondring
Inside corona photography
(Prominence clearly)		 1/60s
1/30s		 1/125s
1/60s		 1/250s
1/125s		 1/500s
1/250s		 1/1000s
1/500s		 1/2000s
1/1000s		 inside corona
Of middle length
Coronaphotography		 1/15s
1/8s
1/4s		 1/30s
1/15s
1/8s		 1/60s
1/30s
1/15s		 1/125s
1/60s
1/30s		 1/250s
1/125s
1/60s		 1/500s
1/250s
1/125s		 middle corona
I opened greatly
Outsidecoronaphotography		 More than
one second		 1/2s
1s
2s		 1/4s
1/2s
1s		 1/8s
1/4s
1/2s		 1/15s
1/8s
1/4s		 1/30s
1/15s
1/8s		 great corona
Partial solar eclipse or
Photography of a golden ring solar eclipse		 D4(ND10000)filter in
1/250-1/2000second degree		 D4(ND10000)filter in
1/500-1/4000second degree		 Partial eclipse
  • As for the viewpoint of the top, as for the photography with a telescope, photography with a camera lens is the same, too.
  • I can photograph even fixed photography, but it seems to me that I take it with an equatorial telescope more neatly.
  • Shutter speed changes for brightness and sensitivity of FILM not length of a lens.
  • When it is clouded, and a total eclipse of the sun is generated in a neighborhood of the horizon, shutter speed declines than a list.
  • An early shutter is effective to 50% for appetite by partial solar eclipse, but the shutter speed that is rather late when I become it than 70% for appetite is effective. (An exposure is prolonged)
  • It seems to a photography lens (a telescope) that I follow tele-converter greatly, but an exposure lengthens because a lens darkens. (Two steps of F value falls in one step, 2 times use in 1.4 times use)
squareA point of photography

When a corona cuts it down adversely for a long time if I lengthen an exposure, a short corona is reflected. When a feathery stratus appears, an exposure is prolonged than a list. In addition, pre-by the exposure that is long if wind is strong; there can be a ? thing. Therefore I change several phases or shutter speed into an aim and should take an upper list.
As for the total eclipse of the sun, a strong person of sensitivity can burst into tears by a very mysterious phenomenon. Therefore I am tense and will practice beforehand not to make a mistake. I am safe when I fasten a ring with adhesive tape if I select a diaphragm as focus because I do not move carelessly. I put the sun midmost without being upset, and let's project it.
Please watch even the naked eye without taking only a photograph. An impression of a total eclipse of the sun judging from the naked eye is totally different from looking with a photograph. When I stand and photograph it, I am tired. Let's take a folding chair.
As for FILM, the one that used a negative is passable to avoid a useless trouble. With the lens that F value is cheerful as possible, I can take FILM that sensitivity is low neatly. Because I am excited while I photograph it, I take too much it and run out of FILM. I take 24 pieces to finish it even if I do not change FILM for the all existing inside and can take the side of 36 pieces to finish more until the last of a solar eclipse. I will make a photography plan beforehand. There is the solar eclipse which, by the way, is generated which is near to the zenith. I prepare an angle finder, and let's observe it with comfortable posture.

squareThe photography method how I do not fail in
cameraYou must be able to be careful with a single-lens reflex camera in particular. When I push a shutter, a mirror jumps up and is closed again, but a shock of this leaping up puts on the unexpected damage to a low speed shutter. I am more than 500mm, and, as for the exposure of a long focus, a shock of mirror up is easy to be affected most time until 1/30 second to 1/60 seconds. When they become the photograph which moved slightly, both the cause and a child are not be a shock by mirror up even if there is focus with much effort. I use FILM that ISO film speed is high to prevent such useless failure.

a schematic view showing a shock by mirror upThere is a schematic view showing a shock by mirror up. When it is early speed of 1/4,000 seconds and 1/2,000 seconds, I do not move slightly like (1) too much from the direct back that pushed the shutter that a shock wave occurs. (2) 1/60 second to 1/30 seconds are affected by the first blurring. (3) Is an exposure of 1/2-1 seconds, but there becomes little influence of blurring. (4) When completely cut a shutter worked by hand in the state that blurring was delivered to, it is it with the photograph which there is not blurring at all. I am good for photography such as a nebula / a star cluster, and this is used in a way to call muzzle opening and shutting method.

shutter
Shutter feather close and un close

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