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Re: filmscanners: Re: looking at the Sun
At 21:16 03-02-01 -0800, you wrote:
>I'm sure others will chime in on this one, but I can't let that advice go
>unanswered. Just because the image in an SLR viewfinder is replected up
>through a pentaprism and a ground glass screen is no reason for
>complaisance about looking at the sun with such a camera. The efforts to
>make the screen view as bright as possible makes the light level in the
>eyepiece just about as dangerous as looking at the sun directly. True,
>there is some reduction, but in many cases, if not most, it is still
>bright enough to blind in a short time. Don't do it!
>Of course, a sunset may have the light attenuated enough by the atmosphere
>to make it safe. But, if it is uncomfortable to look with the unaided eye,
>don't gamble on looking through the viewfinder of an SLR.
Thanks Herschfor supporting my views on this -There are enough warning
given out at Eclipse times for folks to realise the dangers of looking at
the sun -we all know how it hurts just glancing at the sun with the naked eye
stuart
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