Since no other photos of it have been posted here yet … Partial Solar Eclipse, 11am, Reading, UK

Canon R5 Mk II + RF600mm F11 + Thousand Oaks Optical Solar Filter (alas filter missing any details of its “strength”) all on a Manfrotto 405 tripod.

Bottom left is the original (ISO500, 1/125s, F11) , top left is playing around with the histogram tool to emphasise brightness changes, top right a slightly later photo again with histogram modification.

  • KevinFRK@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 days ago

    In passing, this might read as a suggestion to go buy one of these filters. I would actually suggest thinking long and hard before doing that. Really, their only use is photoing the sun on a clear day, and so:

    • Eclipses - a very slightly jagged dark circle out of a bright circle
    • Sunspots - black blotches on a bright circle
    • Conceivably solar flares, but I’ve never even tried for them (and probably even at their strongest, at the best angle, less than 5% of the diameter of the sun - I’m worried by my google results on that!)

    On the flip side, these things are expensive (needing to be optical quality)and likely limited to one diameter of lens.

    There is something deeply satisfying about making your own solar observations, but you may feel replete after very few photos!