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I work at a company filled with VERY smart people and I am convinced that come Tuesday half of them will be blind.
PLEASE:
Do NOT stare at the sun. Do not even glimpse at it.
Do NOT set your camera to live view and look at the screen. While this will save your eyes, it will destroy your camera.
Do NOT use "really dark sunglasses" to look at the sun. You meed ISO-rated solar filters to look at the sun - period.
Do NOT stack a bunch of neutral density (ND) filters on your camera - it will still fry your sensor because they don't filter UV and/or IR light.
The ONLY welders glasses you should consider are #14. For you photography buffs, #14 welding glass cuts 18 stops of light or could be measured as f:1/262144
Solar filters filter 1/100,000 percent of visible light or more as well as UV and IR bands. Invisible light (IR/UV) will blind you or ruin your camera just as effectively as visible light.
DO make a pin-hole projector! You can do it with two paper plates, though aluminum foil works better.
DO bring a colander. Yes, really! It will make cool patterns on the ground for the same reasons that a pin-hole projector works (camera obscura)
DO use proper ISO-rated filters! If you want to live-view with your camera, you CAN do this with a proper filter
Things to watch for:
As totality nears (even if you're not in the path) look at the ground under trees. You'll see a pattern of thousands of little eclipses.
If you're in the path of totality:
Bring white paper or poster board and lay it on the ground in the hopes that you'll witness shadow bands.
During totality, take off your glasses! You can see the sun's corona and you will see stars in the sky. The entire horizon will be in sunset. Birds and animals may get quiet. You know, if it's not cloudy.
PLEASE:
Do NOT stare at the sun. Do not even glimpse at it.
Do NOT set your camera to live view and look at the screen. While this will save your eyes, it will destroy your camera.
Do NOT use "really dark sunglasses" to look at the sun. You meed ISO-rated solar filters to look at the sun - period.
Do NOT stack a bunch of neutral density (ND) filters on your camera - it will still fry your sensor because they don't filter UV and/or IR light.
The ONLY welders glasses you should consider are #14. For you photography buffs, #14 welding glass cuts 18 stops of light or could be measured as f:1/262144
Solar filters filter 1/100,000 percent of visible light or more as well as UV and IR bands. Invisible light (IR/UV) will blind you or ruin your camera just as effectively as visible light.
DO make a pin-hole projector! You can do it with two paper plates, though aluminum foil works better.
DO bring a colander. Yes, really! It will make cool patterns on the ground for the same reasons that a pin-hole projector works (camera obscura)
DO use proper ISO-rated filters! If you want to live-view with your camera, you CAN do this with a proper filter
Things to watch for:
As totality nears (even if you're not in the path) look at the ground under trees. You'll see a pattern of thousands of little eclipses.
If you're in the path of totality:
Bring white paper or poster board and lay it on the ground in the hopes that you'll witness shadow bands.
During totality, take off your glasses! You can see the sun's corona and you will see stars in the sky. The entire horizon will be in sunset. Birds and animals may get quiet. You know, if it's not cloudy.