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How does one go about photographing a solar eclipse?
I've seen videos and articles where people tried to do that, and melted their camera sensors. But they were all doing long exposures, and I haven't seen any for short exposures.
I have a D-SLR (D3100), and have taken photos of the sun before. But with the aperture and shutter speeds maxed out (minimised for the ISO). I also have an FDR-AX100/b, and I really cannot imagine doing damage to for pointing it at the sun with it set to similar settings. But the science doesn't seem to support me on this one.
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you use either a very dark nd filter, or stack several of them, or you do the projection technique, where you use a telescope or binoculars, and project the image of the sun through the ocular onto a white surface, where you can photograph the sun from.
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and most importantly, even with a very dark nd filter, never look through the viewfinder, only use live view through the tft screen. there are special solar filters for this kind of photography as well which filter out all the invisible crap like uv and the ir spectrum, but these cost around $1200.
look for a 10-14 stop nd filter, or stack 2 weaker ones to get 10 stops or more. you have to experiment with your exposure time, since a big stopper like a 10 is quite dark. and you cant spend to much time exposing since the event doesnt take that long
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