Hello all!
My wife and I are planning to travel for the eclipse and I want to have something to take home apart from memories. We don't own any proper camera gear and I think it would be too late to buy some and learn how to use it before the eclipse, so I wanted to see if anyone has been able to do some photography with their phones. Obviously we will be limited and that is okay for us. I've done time lapses of sunrises on my phone before, but I'm not sure if that would work quite the same here, and I don't want to find out that it didn't work after the eclipse is over. I'd really like to get it right and take home something, even if it's just a video.
We did travel and view totality during the annular eclipse in October, but we didn't attempt any sort of video. I did try to jerry-rig my phone behind my solar glasses which the experience of trying that was better than the image quality that I got haha. Has anyone tried doing any sort of video with their phones before on such an event? Or would the same principles likely apply from my sunrise time lapses? My biggest concern is the exposure during totality and either seeing nothing or being totally blinded when not in totality.
If we can't make anything work, that's okay, we'll just enjoy our second eclipse of the year! But something to see is always welcome.