- #Solar eclipse maestro liveview prevents shutter cracked#
- #Solar eclipse maestro liveview prevents shutter series#
Now take a high powered telephoto lens, such as a 200mm f/2.8 - the entrance pupil is over 70mm wide! The amount of sunlight, including infrared light, striking a circle 70mm wide is 320X as much as the amount striking a 4mm circle, and over 1,200X as that striking a 2 mm wide circle! Multiply that energy times 4 for a 400mm f/2.8 or a 560mm f/4 or an 800mm f/5.6. Human pupils have a minimum opening of only about 2-4mm when fully constricted. Even looking at the unmagnified sun for a relatively short time period with your naked eyes can damage them. You can also permanently damage your eyes.
You can damage your camera in mere seconds. With narrower angles of view provided by longer focal length lenses it's an entirely different story. You can't replace retinas cooked by the sun's infrared light! Keep in mind, though, that to the best of my knowledge NO manufacturer of cameras or lenses has ever said anything to the effect of, "It's okay to look at the sun through our camera's viewfinder." If in doubt, use Live View. More importantly, with wider angles of view it probably doesn't do any harm to the photographer's eyesight. When the sun is very low on the horizon the energy is also reduced as there is much more of Earth's atmosphere to absorb much of that energy between an observer on the ground than when the sun is high in the sky.
Then again, maybe it was all just luck that nothing got burned )Īt very wide angles the danger is much less and taking photos with the sun in the field of view doesn't normally harm the camera or lens. I also have a Sony DSC-R1 (a high-end CMOS-based P&S camera) and have accumulated easily over 200k on that one, of which many times I spent very long periods of time shooting directly into the sun in an attempt at making Photoshop-like solar flares ) Again here I was never able to find any noticeable deterioration or difference between the first images.
#Solar eclipse maestro liveview prevents shutter cracked#
However, one with the most exposures has a big purple splotch that sometimes appears in images off to one side, although it seems to be more connected to the LCD screen as when I wiggle the screen it usually goes away (for awhile) - I attribute it to falling off a rock onto other rocks and once falling 2m into the bathtub (which incidentally cracked the fish-eye, so now it rattles when you tip it any direction but amazingly still works fine ). Oddly enough, all 4 cameras have never exhibited any loss of quality or showed any signs of damage from the sun. Most of those were shot using a wide-angle or a 180-degree Raynox fish-eye adapter, though I would think that would compound the problem having more lens elements to refract the light? Many of those sequences were shot during an entire day with complete and direct view into the sun (intentionally). 2 of 4 have taken between 2 and 3 million images.
#Solar eclipse maestro liveview prevents shutter series#
I have 4 cheap P&S (Canon PowerShot) cameras which I have used exclusively over the years for shooting time-lapse series (500 - 100k images per shoot) and all cameras have a minimum of 500k exposures according to Exif data. My own experiences says it doesn't occur with P&S cameras - ever. I would say it really depends on if you have a SLR, DSLR or P&S (Point-and-Shoot) - and maybe even possibly it more (or less) depends if the sensor is CCD or CMOS.
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