Photographing the solar eclipse

[Dixie Goode]

Last time I was anywhere close to a solar eclipse I managed to use my point and shoot camera and viewing lenses to get some ok shots

I posted this here

Would love to see what happens next week posted in this thread in discussions

[Allison Williams]

Great shot!

[Dixie Goode]

@allie912 thank you. If you want to see more about it, I had a blog post way back then, http://duffybarkley.blogspot.com/2012/05/may-20th-annular-eclipse-as-seen-from.html

[Carissa]

This gives me hope! I know my photos won't turn out well but I'm hoping I can get something with my point and shoot.

[Dixie Goode]

@claycameras what I was reading says that if you are in the area of totality, the. View lens won't work, as there will be nothing brighter than a full moon, but you can use your eyes and camera alone only during that phase. We will only get 91% coverage here. And in the picture above as there was still a ring of Fire, we always had to protect both camera and eyes.

[Dixie Goode]

Now I'm wondering what we will get, today I could look at the sun with naked eyes and barely see it through the haze of smoke from distant forest fires.