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- Real Name: Chris Mlodnicki
Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:07 pm
I will be livestreaming the eclipse for our astronomy club on April 8th. My plan is to have four Studio4KPros on telescopes and long lenses, and a BMPC6kPro on another telescope.
The issue is settings and exposure settings. Frankly, I don't know if anyone else has used cameras like this or a cine cam to film a total solar eclipse yet. I don't want to waste a lot of time with settings on each camera the moment of totality, but I'm not sure about exposure settings.
The eclipse has huge dynamic range. To get the entire corona, I will be shooting DSLRs and astro cameras with about 19 steps of dynamic range and stacking images. I know the cameras cannot do that live, but I can do stuff in post to get better videos as long as I don't blow out the histogram.
The telescopes are fixed aperture and focal ratios, so all I can change is gain and shutter speeds. I can have some filming the inner corona with shorter exposures, and some filming the outer corona with longer exposures, if needed.
Does anyone have suggestions?
The issue is settings and exposure settings. Frankly, I don't know if anyone else has used cameras like this or a cine cam to film a total solar eclipse yet. I don't want to waste a lot of time with settings on each camera the moment of totality, but I'm not sure about exposure settings.
The eclipse has huge dynamic range. To get the entire corona, I will be shooting DSLRs and astro cameras with about 19 steps of dynamic range and stacking images. I know the cameras cannot do that live, but I can do stuff in post to get better videos as long as I don't blow out the histogram.
The telescopes are fixed aperture and focal ratios, so all I can change is gain and shutter speeds. I can have some filming the inner corona with shorter exposures, and some filming the outer corona with longer exposures, if needed.
Does anyone have suggestions?