Anyone filming the transit of Venus?

[Scotness]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-06/t ... ay/4054510

I won't be - but I'll be having a look at it

Scot

[wado1942]

Unfortunately, no. I didn't even think about it till it was too late. I have a 99% reflective industrial grade mirror somewhere that probably would have been perfect to cut the light down to something my K3 with 100 ISO would handle.

[Scotness]

Well I just looked at it - I had sunglasses, one of those sun viewer eye piece things from Fuji, and a sheet of blue lighting gel folded about 5 times before I could look at it - and it was still bright! - and Venus was tiny! - all I can say is it's obviously a long way away...... :lol:

Scot

[aj]

For the record it would be nice to do a time lapse or something. For the effort the S8 frame is way too small. You had better put up a real 35mm SLR and just shoot some frames on 1st, 2nd transition and 3 and 4. And a number in between. With two films all would be registered.

I did shoot some S8 on the Antalya Turkey solar eclipse. Unfortunately the aperture/shutter cannot reach far enough to capture all from upper to lower light values.

[Angus]

I didn't get to view it this year.

But back in 2004 my employer PAID me to photograph the transit and to do a super 8 time lapse....which I am proud to say was broadcast via video conference to schools in South Africa.

The one and only time I blagged the school into paying me to shoot super 8.

Sadly it was also the only Kodachrome cart I had which exhibited bad jitter.