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?