The 2024 Great North American Eclipse

[Kino]

Had a good shot until NASA went and messed it up...

 

[MattKing]

Fascinating - and 83 years after Isaac Asimov's intriguing little story .....

 

[ic-racer]

As I had worried, the ecllipse became totaly dark in the viewfinder with the solar filter in place, but still blinding bright without the filter. The transition is not easy to record on film.

During the totoal there were some amazing bright red solar flares. I had a good view of these as I was fiming.

 

[Helios 1984]

 

[Kino]

There are between two and five solar eclipses per year that occur on the Earth.

Just because it happened in the USA, it's a big deal.

Right.

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

Yeah, if you are smack in the path of totality - it is a big deal.

If it had happened anywhere else it would be a big deal there, too.

 

[Cholentpot]

There are between two and five solar eclipses per year that occur on the Earth.

Just because it happened in the USA, it's a big deal.

Right.

Name of thread is The Great North American Eclipse.

Anyhow, I have to give up on the Mamiya C33 and original plan for the F3. The filter I bought was just too dense to do anything with. Instead of took filter off lens and used my solar glasses to focus. I did substitute the 120 for a Pentax 110 Auto Super with a 50mm and a 2x Tele. The stuff I shot digitally came out incredible and the 4x5 time lapse did too. I just developed it and it's drying right now. I hope to get to the 35mm sooner than later.

 

[mshchem]

From a Starlink camera, 22 seconds

 

[ic-racer]

Absolutely fantastic! Would not have missed. The bright red solar flare was special. Waited for that since the late 1960s eclipse that I saw, but was only partial.
Chances of a total solar eclipse going over one's home in a lifetime are small.
Who learns anything from an eclipse over the ocean? The fish might enjoy it.

 

[TJones]

Absolutely fantastic! Would not have missed. The bright red solar flare was special. Waited for that since the late 1960s eclipse that I saw, but was only partial.
Chances of a total solar eclipse going over one's home in a lifetime are small.
Who learns anything from an eclipse over the ocean? The fish might enjoy it.

That prominence/flare near the south pole was stunning. The smaller ones in 2017 showed up in photos, but weren’t visible to naked eye. This one was as amazing as the corona.

 

[Cholentpot]

I nailed a bunch of shots on digital. I've only develop some of the film so far. The whole experience for me was mind blowing. Even better that I just watched it from my front yard!

I made some compilations and time lines, but for now I'll post this. You can see the CME's on this pretty well. Naked eye though it was glittering. I'm convinced anyone who thinks it's no big deal has never seen 100% totality. It's life changing. 99% isn't 100%. I'm glade I lived in this time and place to have seen it.

 

[ic-racer]

Some of the cameras I used for the eclipse.

 

[Cholentpot]

Some of the cameras I used for the eclipse.

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Ha!

I was as much a spectacle as the eclipse in my neighborhood. People took photos of my setup on my front lawn. It was wild and I was wallowing in the geekery.

 

[Oz Etkin]

My father and I had initially planned to see the eclipse from Buffalo, NY, but decided at the last minute to move due to clouds. We wound up in a small town in Ohio where the clouds cleared up before totality. It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen by far.

Here are some of my digital photos:

I have 5 very good-looking negatives of totality taken on TMAX 100, which I have not printed as I am still trying to remove the notorious pink stain which often appears on TMAX films. I'll post those here as soon as I make enlargements.

 

[Cholentpot]

My father and I had initially planned to see the eclipse from Buffalo, NY, but decided at the last minute to move due to clouds. We wound up in a small town in Ohio where the clouds cleared up before totality. It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen by far.

Here are some of my digital photos:
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I have 5 very good-looking negatives of totality taken on TMAX 100, which I have not printed as I am still trying to remove the notorious pink stain which often appears on TMAX films. I'll post those here as soon as I make enlargements.

Way cool. I think the high clouds gave the totality a little more drama. You nailed the flare.

I just finished scanning a 4x5 sheet of Arista 400. Did multiple exposures on it.

 

[MattKing]

I have 5 very good-looking negatives of totality taken on TMAX 100, which I have not printed as I am still trying to remove the notorious pink stain which often appears on TMAX films. I'll post those here as soon as I make enlargements.

The pink colour won't hurt anything.
Washaid (e.g. HCA) plus a re-wash will usually remove it, if you are bothered by it.
In case you haven't seen it: https://www.photrio.com/forum/threa...which-is-a-different-issue.69462/#post-975950
Oh, and great photos!

 

[bags27]

My father and I had initially planned to see the eclipse from Buffalo, NY, but decided at the last minute to move due to clouds. We wound up in a small town in Ohio where the clouds cleared up before totality. It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen by far.

Here are some of my digital photos:
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I have 5 very good-looking negatives of totality taken on TMAX 100, which I have not printed as I am still trying to remove the notorious pink stain which often appears on TMAX films. I'll post those here as soon as I make enlargements.

Just awesome. As in: I am in complete awe.

 

[Oz Etkin]

I just refixed the film, the fixer seems to have gotten rid of most of the stain. I had used hypo-clear when I developed the film last night, but it seems to have gone bad.

I'm glad you like the digital photos!

 

[Cholentpot]

Totality on film! I got one shot of totality on 35mm and nailed it.

Nikon F3, RMC Tokina 500mm 1.8, 1/1250, Ultrafine Extreme 400, D-76 1:1 14min. DSLR Scanned with a Canon T2i and an EF 100mm 2.8 Macro. Inverted and leveled in Adobe Lightroom

 

[bags27]

Totality on film! I got one shot of totality on 35mm and nailed it.

Nikon F3, RMC Tokina 500mm 1.8, 1/1250, Ultrafine Extreme 400, D-76 1:1 14min. DSLR Scanned with a Canon T2i and an EF 100mm 2.8 Macro. Inverted and leveled in Adobe Lightroom

Congratulations. Hope you print and hang it.

 

[Cholentpot]

Congratulations. Hope you print and hang it.

Might not be darkroom printable but I'm going to give it a shot. It's not as 'cool' as some of my digital shots but I'm much prouder of this one due to the work I had to put into it.

 

[Cholentpot]

Here's my 4x5 and 35mm attempt at capturing the whole thing.

I missed the totality on 4x5 so I popped my 35mm shot in using photoshop. It's only cheating if decide it is.

Either way I like this image the way it is. I had the Crown Graphic set to 1/400 stopped all the way down to something like f/32 and popped the shutter every ten minutes or so. Arista ED400. It's not the clearest shot nor the highest fidelity but it's unique and mine. No filter on camera. I focused before eclipse and hoped for the best.

The totality is a 35mm shot on a F3 with a 500mm Tokina mirror lens. No filter either. Ultrafine Extreme 400. I was planning on using a filter but it was too cumbersome to find the sun with it on so I just slapped a filter over the eye piece more or less.

 

[ic-racer]

Very nice. I was thinking of doing that also, but had too many things going on. Which lens did you use on the Crown? Is that the full frame? If so, you centered it perfectly! The few days prior were cloudy, so I was unable to do any testing to see where the sun would be beforehand.

Your solution for the middle image is great. I was worried that the long exposure for totality would fog the rest of the sky (which I wanted to keep black, as you have done.)

Again, excellent!!

 

[Cholentpot]

Very nice. I was thinking of doing that also, but had too many things going on. Which lens did you use on the Crown? Is that the full frame? If so, you centered it perfectly! The few days prior were cloudy, so I was unable to do any testing to see where the sun would be beforehand.

Your solution for the middle image is great. I was worried that the long exposure for totality would fog the rest of the sky (which I wanted to keep black, as you have done.)

Again, excellent!!

Oh no, this ain't the full frame. I cropped out a corner. I really wanted to pay attention to the eclipse itself so I tried not to bog myself down with details and worrying about stuff. I set it up and hoped for the best. It was cloudy the week before but Sunday the day before was clear so I was able to test out the filters and stuff. Issue was it was raining the morning of the eclipse. I generally use the idea that if I can do it in a darkroom somehow it doesn't bother me to do it in photoshop. So this took some work but I got it together in photoshop.

Here's the full frame, I'll share it here. This doesn't ruin the 'magic' for us film folks. I think it encourages people to do the most with their film.

I used a Xenar 1:4.5 135mm Schneider-Kreuznach for this. Cable release every 10 minutes, sitting on a tripod. I took the dark slide out, popped the shutter and put slide back in. I think I might have snapped one off during totality but I don't see any evidence of it on the negative

 

[ic-racer]

Thank you for posting the full negative!