DaveC1 Loc: South East US

Well with all the talk about the eclipse I thought I'd try a test shot. This is with two linear polarizing filters, cross polarized, a circular polarizing filter, a UV filter and a sort of light rose colored filter labeled for color correction for cloudy shots. The camera is an Olympus E-620 with a 40-150mm f4-5.6 lens Exposure was something like 1/320" at f14

DaveC1 Loc: South East US

Oh, and ISO was on 100

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Wow! Quite a shot.

DaveC1 Loc: South East US

Thanks Jerry

sailorsmom Loc: Souderton, PA

Neat shot, Dave!

DaveC1 Loc: South East US

Thank you sailorsmom.

skh1454

Quite a remarkable shot! I don't believe I've ever seen the sun shot with this kind of filter combination. Sorry I'm late to the party -- I didn't see this until I read your post today (Aug 8). When I looked carefully at this shot I realized it was shot on Aug 3, and then noticed that's the date you posted it. Did you catch the sunspot in your photo? It appears at about "10:00" on the sun's face, about 3/4 the way from the center point to the sun's edge (it appears as a small dark fleck on your photo). There's been very little sunspot activity, but this spot appeared on Aug 1 at the sun's horizon at about "10:30". This afternoon it appeared at about "6:00" about 1/3 the way down from the sun's center. I expect that it will continue to track diagonally and vanish off the lower right quadrant before the eclipse -- a pity, since I've found it to be a handy focusing aid! Here's what it looked like today around 3pm using a standard DayStar (SolarLite) white light (eclipse) filter:

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DaveC1 Loc: South East US

Hello skh1454

I assumed that to be a sun spot at around 10:00. At least I thought so when I looked at the photo. Thank you for the additional photo.