Shooting Lunar Eclipse

[Kaku Ito]

We are planning to shoot the Lunar Eclipse on this Monday morning (Japan time). Using our Epic and Sigma 500mm F2.8 with 1.4x extender at 2KHD 360frames/sec..
Can anyone help with the filter configuration and not to do to protect the camera?

 

[Conrad Hunziker]

For the solar eclipse this coming sunday/monday Im using special solar filters. These are ND 5.0 filters, plus a lot of other light blocking material. Remember that visible light isnt all that the sun radiates, but its all that 'normal' ND filters block. These particular ones look like tin foil. You can find more info here:

http://www.nikonusa.com/Learn-And-E...akgu/1/How-to-Photograph-a-Solar-Eclipse.html

 

[Joseph Coleman]

Just Curious....the lunar eclips isn't that fast. Why shoot at high frame rates when you could shoot 5k FF 96fps?

 

[Joe Pontecorvo]

I'm here in Japan and was hoping to shoot it as well, but all I have with me are regular ND filers with IR.
I've seen the solar filters and they look like something off the LEM, but if I don't have any solar filters would it be too risky?
What do you think?

 

[Kaku Ito]

Hello Joseph,

shooting eclipse might be better with time laps with DSLR (which we will on the side), and we thought we will be different a little with get a very tight view and capture the flames or any movement with high speed if we can. what do you think?

and thanks to all of the other comments.

 

[Conrad Hunziker]

I personally dont think shooting high frame rates with those lenses make sense. with a 750mm lens you wont get much in terms of 'flames'. You'll need a much more powerful lens, like a several meter lens, and at that point you'll have stabilization and alignment issues. NASA has several satellites that point at the sun that produce those 'flame' images you may be thinking of, and those are not high speed cameras. It really does take that long for the flames to shoot thousands of miles.

One more thing to consider is this is an annular solar eclipse, meaning that the sun will never disappear 100% as a 'normal' solar eclipse. Even if the sun is 99% blocked, that 1% is still too bright to see many of the other solar features, and certainly bright enough to ruin your eyesight.

People have shot with the sun in the frame for years - if you are using wider angle lens, it may not damage your sensor. But if you plan on the sun just being the whole image, thats a lot of light concentrated into a little area. Remember little kids would 'burn ants' with a simple magnifying glass - not something I would be pointing at a valuable sensor without protection.