> Speaking of which, has anybody a recommendation on solar filters? I > have a aluminized mylar filter that I have used to shoot a couple of > solar eclipses, but it makes the colours strange: > http://anders.hultman.nu/album/al/eclipse-bucuresti
I used exactly the same type of filter as you did (well, I think I did). Bought it in a sheet from a company in the UK. I didn't seem to get any strange colours.
http://www.beard-redfern.com/eclipse.html
(New Year's Resolution - re-do some of my web pages. This is particularly bad!)
Wendy Beard, Ottawa, Canada http://www.beard-redfern.com