Transcript
Let me show you how to film the eclipse with a smartphone. And yes, I know you often take pictures with your phone of a nice, beautiful sunset, but that is a different situation than this. Because when the sun is at the far end of the horizon, all that light travels through the atmosphere, and the higher energy blue and UV light gets filtered out. It's also why it's a lot safer for you to look at it with your eyes when it is a sunset than when the sun is up in the zenith of its orbit in the sky. So, when you look up in the middle of the day, you can burn out your eyes, on the horizon it is going to be a lot safer. The same goes for the sensor on your camera. It's not a guarantee that filming the sun in midday will totally destroy your camera, but it's certainly possible and there is a way to prevent this, just like there is a way to keep your eyes safe. So if you have an extra pair of eclipse glasses, you're going to use them to create a solar filter for your lens on your camera. Just cut out one of the eyes, keep it over your lens. Ideally both the 1x and a zoom lens, I think the zoom lens is going to be a better and then just point your camera up at the sun and test it. And when filming, I recommend first testing all your camera settings, ideally in an app that lets you set the individual settings like Focus and ISO so that you know you've got it exactly locked in to be able to film the sun before that eclipse actually happens.
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