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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]7:15 We got some with a really basic digital cannon withput a filter and also tried withbour cell phones, both iphones and galaxy.  We held a pair of eclipse glasses over the iphone and just shot with the galaxy.  Both phone poctures looked the same, the sun with a tiny black pinprick in the center and dusky looking skies.

The very basic digital point and click cannon (my kid got it in early elementary school,so cheap and basic) was used with no filter.. The image definitely showed a full eclipse. If you look at the pictures poset above, the black center is about 1/3 the size of the ones with the filter. From the small center out to the corona, it is a orange/yellow sun color.  Right along where the filter pictures show the blacl center meeting the corona, there is a thin circular line. The sky is just as black in our basic,unfiltered picture.

The filtered pictures posted are incredible and look exactly as it did in real time.[/quote]

This pic was not taken with any filter on:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/k4PszPh.jpg[/img]
I know.  I had a ND 18 filter for the partial eclipse, but removed it for totality.

The problem you had was the limitations of a auto-exposure point and shoot in unusual lighting conditions.  Since the overall light was not much compared to the brightness of the corona, the corona was over exposed, and that bled into surrounding pixels.  My pics were still over exposed.  In hindsight, I should have used manual exposure, training my camera on the moon for reference.
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Probably with a much nicer camera though than an old early digital kids point and click camera.  We forgot out nice camera. I wish we would have brought it.[/quote]

I used a nikon d7000 with a nikkor 70-300 mm lens.  Mounted to a tripod.[/quote]

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