When you say "remote viewing," how remote do you mean? Will you be near the camera to frequently guide it and just look at the image on a notebook computer while sitting in the shade, or stay back in the house with the camera some distance away?

Some issues:

(1) The solar filter is only good for before and after totality. For the four minutes of totality, you'll have to remove the solar filter, and may also need to refocus.

(2) If you want a decent view of the corona during totality, you'll need at least a 300mm lens for a full-frame camera, or better a 500mm or 600mm lens. With the same lens you plan to use, try taking a photo of the moon, which is about the same apparent size as the sun, to see how big the sun will appear in your photo. During totality, the corona may extend over one solar diameter or more on each side.

Alternatively, you could use a wide angle lens -- say 35mm -- to take a series of photos with the camera on the tripod, and let the sun move across the frame over the couple of hours of the whole eclipse, then make a composite to see all of the eclipse from first contact to totality through last contact. Practice this several days beforehand, just to see how to angle the camera frame along the sun's path. In two hours, the sun moves about 30°.

(3) For remote viewing where you are not present to guide the camera, it needs to be on a sturdy tripod and a tracking mount, to follow the sun because of Earth's rotation. The sun moves about ½° (its own diameter) every two minutes. The tracker needs to be set up with its rotational axis parallel to Earth's axis (pointing near the star Polaris). Difficult to do in the daytime. You could set it up at night, cover it, and then use it in the daytime. If you get a tracking mount (several hundred $), practice a lot before the big event.

Some examples:
https://www.moveshootmove.com/collections/move-shoot-move-rotator/products/msm-rotator-for-star-tracking-time-lapse-panorama-photography?variant=21144679022669&aff=198
The Move-Shoot-Move tracker is good for shorter focal-length lenses, but inaccurate or slips for long (heavy) focal-length lenses

Better for a heavier camera/lens: https://www.skywatcherusa.com/products/star-adventurer-mini-pro-pack

(4) During totality, there is a huge variation in brightness from the little pink prominences on the sun's limb, to the inner corona, to the outer corona. You'll need several exposures at different durations to capture all parts of it. For example, a series of seven exposures from 1/500 sec. at f/11 to ¼ sec. at f/11, at ISO 1200 could get all the parts. You could then combine the series into a composite. To do that remotely, you'd need software that controls the camera.

If you are not planning to take photos, but just watch the eclipse on the remote computer, you'll still need some way to guide the camera and remove the solar filter during totality, and change the exposure for the live view. If there is any way you could be outside on the center line during totality, maybe with binoculars, that will give you by far the best view and experience. There are many things that go on during an eclipse, from the darkening of the sky, to stars and planets coming out, to crescent-shaped images projected on the ground through tree leaves, to strange moving shadows, to quieting of animal noises. It can be an emotional experience.

Good luck.

I'm preparing to take a 3 week international photography journey and might not take my laptop. I'm using a 45 mp camera. A reasonable estimate of how many photos I'll shoot on this trip would be something north of 2,000. My D850 uses an SD card and a CF Express B card. My decision is whether to buy a large capacity SD card, like 512, and just leave it in the camera, or several smaller cards that will be backed up by the CF Express card in case I lose any or all of them as I move through several countries? Are the large SD cards stable? Do these read as fast as smaller cards?

I have the following Nikon F mount lenses for my Nikon D500:
Nikon 18-300 mm (used handheld when my grandchildren are performing, depends on my distance from the stage).
Tamron 18-400 mm (used handheld when my grand children are performing, depends on my distance from the stage, 100 mm can make a difference).
Tamron 160-600 mm (used on a tripod to photograph birds and squirrels in my backyard or on my neighbor's roof).
(these three lenses are sometimes attached to 1.4X or 2X teleconverters).
Nikon 105 mm macro (use it less after retiring than before).
Pre-digital time Nikon 60 mm macro (not used frequently now).
Has anyone used some or all of these lenses with a Nikon Z8?
If yes, what has your experience been? Do you have any suggestions, recommendations?
I have yet to buy a Nikon Z8, but am thinking about it. Chances of buying one will be better if I will not have to purchase new lenses, skylight filters, etc.
In case it will make any difference: I am nearing 92 and in a wheel chair, but in reasonably good shape for my age. Still know well what keys are for, but sometimes forget where I put them.

Hi all, I am retired but have always been an amateur photographer. Took a lot of pictures for my own enjoyment . Now that I am retired, I plan to go back to my country and become a photographer for weddings which is a good business.

Could someone tell me what kind of camera, lenses, flash and battery charger I should buy to do weddings? Iam not talking high end equipment but good enough to take good and sharp pics.Right now I only have point and shoot cameras with no interchangeable lenses.

Any help will be appreciated.

Vijay

So its gifting season, and some of us will also generously gift ourself as well. In many such cases the arrival of a new whizbang machine should spell adios for some seldom used relic that we havent yet kicked to the curb ... "out of kindness I suppose".

Fess up ! Whats your still functional but quite neglected old relic that has just hung around thru benign neglect or chronic procrastination.

I can fess up to six SLRs and a Pocket Zoom, some of them never having seen regular use at all and retired before their first birthday :-(

Okaaay Hawgz ! Step right up and Fess Up ! Itz good for the soul and good for the biome. Time to cleanse your soul and spill your gutz.