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Old 11-December-2002, 07:24 PM
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How do you take solar photography without knackering your camera?

Do you simply set the lowest exposure settings (on my camera, that's f/32 1/2000s) or do you need to attach special filters?
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Old 11-December-2002, 08:12 PM
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You need special filters.

"don't try it without special filters"
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