Partial Eclipse
Like most of Western Europe I wanted to try and get a shot of the Lunar eclipse of the Sun, and knowing I wouldn’t get as good a shot as NASA etc I was more interested in watching the people watching the eclipse. As it happened, though, the shots weren’t too bad.
Prior to the day, I spent some time looking into whether even attempting the shots would reduce my camera’s sensor to a block of molten glass and plastic.
Lots of talk about the risk, but AI agreed with me that plenty of visual light stopper, and not leaving the camera focused on the Sun for too long would mitigate the risk sufficiently. Even so, I used my back-up Sony A7R4 camera, rather than my main A7R5…
Interesting to see that I sometimes managed to retain some colour in the shots and other times none. Settings were around 1/100 or 1.500, f5.6 or f8…
We were gathered atop Nibley Knoll in the south of Gloucestershire, overlooking the Rover Severn and at the site of the monument to William Tyndale; strangled then burnt at the stake for the heinous crime of translating the Latin Bible into English.
My earlier test shot, showing sunspots on the left side of the Sun.
