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Originally Posted by DavidTrap
Very impressive.
Would love a few details of your exposures and how you controlled your camera for the eclipse (I used a clever piece of software to automate my Nikon for the Cairns Eclipse - just wondering what’s changed since then)
DT
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Thanks David.
I mulled long and hard over how to control the cameras prior to the eclipse. Unfortunately Eclipse Maestro
(or as far as I know anything else…& BTW happy to of what might work for future eclipses ) does not support the EOSR5, so I explored using my CamRanger2 to take an auto-exposure-bracket sequence.
This proved too slow, which then led me to using AEB within the camera as a custom mode then triggering the camera using an external intervalometer.
That said, my CamRanger2 proved to be invaluable for totally nailing focus using a nice big iPad screen before the partial phases. (as demonstrated by the solar granulation in the attached image).
I then disconnected it to allow unfettered intervalometer control.
The EOSR5 uses the new and remarkably fast CFExpress cards which can record 1800Mb/sec of data.
As result, you can sustain a burst of 20fps for several seconds to record Bailey’s Beads before buffering.
This allowed me to switch from manual (electronic shutter burst mode) to my 7 shot ½ f-stop bracket + mechanical shutter custom mode
and record over 400 frames in the R5 during the “mad-minute” of the eclipse. (My EOSRa on the Stowaway recorded about 300)
It all worked a treat.
