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<blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 818145" data-attributes="member: 48483">After watching several eclipse tutorial videos lately, I had a rethink of my photography plan. I will have one camera with wide-angle lens on a fixed tripod, and the main camera with my Sigma 150-600mm lens on my heavy tripod with star-tracker mount. I can use the intervalometer with each setup and I can reduce my workload a lot. I just have to shut off the intervalometer on each camera just before the total phase and remove the solar filter. Then just take some bracketed shots on each camera. Put filters back on just after totality, and start the original intervalometer program again. My glass solar filter and square filter holder was bought for a particular lens: Sigma 20mm f/1.4 Art. I will use that for the fixed tripod set now. That means I needed another good filter for the 150-600mm, which I bought last weekend. It arrived yesterday, and today I have sunshine to test it.[ATTACH=full]403347[/ATTACH]Same brand and filtration, just in a 95mm screw-on form. It will make the filter removal a lot easier in the field for both lenses this way. Exposure is identical for both. And yes, it took extra weight off the end of my long lens as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BF Hammer, post: 818145, member: 48483"] After watching several eclipse tutorial videos lately, I had a rethink of my photography plan. I will have one camera with wide-angle lens on a fixed tripod, and the main camera with my Sigma 150-600mm lens on my heavy tripod with star-tracker mount. I can use the intervalometer with each setup and I can reduce my workload a lot. I just have to shut off the intervalometer on each camera just before the total phase and remove the solar filter. Then just take some bracketed shots on each camera. Put filters back on just after totality, and start the original intervalometer program again. My glass solar filter and square filter holder was bought for a particular lens: Sigma 20mm f/1.4 Art. I will use that for the fixed tripod set now. That means I needed another good filter for the 150-600mm, which I bought last weekend. It arrived yesterday, and today I have sunshine to test it. [ATTACH type="full"]403347[/ATTACH] Same brand and filtration, just in a 95mm screw-on form. It will make the filter removal a lot easier in the field for both lenses this way. Exposure is identical for both. And yes, it took extra weight off the end of my long lens as well. [/QUOTE]

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