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Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2017
This was smaller than I expected, but I guess that was my fault. I was sure I ordered a larger sheet, but when I got a 6" square and checked my order, that was apparently what I had ordered. :/
It's a bit of a pain to put it together into a box style filter you can place on top of your lens. You aren't supposed to touch it without gloves on as the oils on your finger can damage it. I looked through it at the sun and may have damaged my eye - it does say they don't recommend using it for your eyes, even though they've never heard of it causing a problem. So I'm telling you now - a few seconds looking through it did not blind me, but did leave my eye seeing 'off', even a couple weeks later. So DON'T LOOK THROUGH IT AT THE SUN as it isn't meant for that.
I was told at a Canon eclipse workshop that this film was not good because it's shiny on both sides and there is a risk of reflections between the film and lens glass, causing 'ghosting'. So I ordered what they recommended, a Seymour Solar filter. I've attached pictures of the sun through both - this Baader filter is the whiter one, the Seymour is yellow. They seem fairly equivalent in image clarity, and color can always be adjusted after the fact. The Baader was much cheaper, but then I went with a glass one in a nice aluminum mount from Seymour as I found the Baader film a pain.
Little did I know that the Seymour glass also has the ghosting risk, I would have had to use their film to avoid that. Sigh. (Bad vibes going towards Canon rep for the partial information.)
Evaluate for yourself. The pictures are taken with a Sony a6000 wearing a cheap Opteka 500mm lens (750mm FF equivalent due to the APS-C sensor)
It's a bit of a pain to put it together into a box style filter you can place on top of your lens. You aren't supposed to touch it without gloves on as the oils on your finger can damage it. I looked through it at the sun and may have damaged my eye - it does say they don't recommend using it for your eyes, even though they've never heard of it causing a problem. So I'm telling you now - a few seconds looking through it did not blind me, but did leave my eye seeing 'off', even a couple weeks later. So DON'T LOOK THROUGH IT AT THE SUN as it isn't meant for that.
I was told at a Canon eclipse workshop that this film was not good because it's shiny on both sides and there is a risk of reflections between the film and lens glass, causing 'ghosting'. So I ordered what they recommended, a Seymour Solar filter. I've attached pictures of the sun through both - this Baader filter is the whiter one, the Seymour is yellow. They seem fairly equivalent in image clarity, and color can always be adjusted after the fact. The Baader was much cheaper, but then I went with a glass one in a nice aluminum mount from Seymour as I found the Baader film a pain.
Little did I know that the Seymour glass also has the ghosting risk, I would have had to use their film to avoid that. Sigh. (Bad vibes going towards Canon rep for the partial information.)
Evaluate for yourself. The pictures are taken with a Sony a6000 wearing a cheap Opteka 500mm lens (750mm FF equivalent due to the APS-C sensor)
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Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2017
I got this to use on my 5" reflector telescope. Obviously this wasn't big enough to cover the entire aperture so I had to make my own sleeve to put around the telescope made with poster board. It did reduce the aperture size by a bit, but honestly, that didn't pose any problem for me, and even then I still put on a moon filter to lower the brightness a bit more.
I really liked that it shows a more true color for the sun rather than the yellow that eclipse filters do. The film is too thin for my likes though and is really hard to handle and keep glued (it kept peeling off because the film is so thin and the sheet of manila tag it says to glue onto is too glossy to hold a proper grip. So I just went out and bought a sheet of poster board, cut a circle, and then a second one inside of it and used double-sided tape to stick the sheet onto the disc and then glued a sleeve to it so I could easily slide it off and on my telescope.
I also was able to see several large sunspots just by holding the sheet up to the sun (which they don't recommend since it doesn't fully block all the UV, but seeing how I wear glasses which are UV blocking as well, I figured looking for a few seconds wasn't too bad.) On the telescope it works perfectly fine, got to see some more smaller sunspots which weren't visible to the unaided eye.
But again, it's a bit pricey (I paid $29, and as of this review it's down to like $25) for the size, and it's just really, REALLY thin, mine got a few creases just by attaching so, be careful. But it sure beats paying $100 for 'telescope ready' filters.
I really liked that it shows a more true color for the sun rather than the yellow that eclipse filters do. The film is too thin for my likes though and is really hard to handle and keep glued (it kept peeling off because the film is so thin and the sheet of manila tag it says to glue onto is too glossy to hold a proper grip. So I just went out and bought a sheet of poster board, cut a circle, and then a second one inside of it and used double-sided tape to stick the sheet onto the disc and then glued a sleeve to it so I could easily slide it off and on my telescope.
I also was able to see several large sunspots just by holding the sheet up to the sun (which they don't recommend since it doesn't fully block all the UV, but seeing how I wear glasses which are UV blocking as well, I figured looking for a few seconds wasn't too bad.) On the telescope it works perfectly fine, got to see some more smaller sunspots which weren't visible to the unaided eye.
But again, it's a bit pricey (I paid $29, and as of this review it's down to like $25) for the size, and it's just really, REALLY thin, mine got a few creases just by attaching so, be careful. But it sure beats paying $100 for 'telescope ready' filters.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2017
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2017
This solar film worked really well for my Canon DSLR. I'm picky about the sharpness of my images, and I had no issues. Yes, you have to build something to hold the film in front of your lens, but that wasn't a big deal. What mattered most to me was getting a sharp image with a good white color (not the artificial yellow/orange).
I'd also recommend using a manual exposure. I had tested this with the sun on a bright day prior to the eclipse to work out an exposure that gave good detail on the sun (made sure the sun spots were clearly visible). I started with the exposure the camera recommended and then experimented from there.
I'd also recommend using a manual exposure. I had tested this with the sun on a bright day prior to the eclipse to work out an exposure that gave good detail on the sun (made sure the sun spots were clearly visible). I started with the exposure the camera recommended and then experimented from there.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2021
Funciona perfectamente en un pequeño telescopio 60mm.
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2021
He observado que el film Baader luce arrugado en las fotos de los filtros construidos de forma casera. Por ello en mi filtro puse el film entre dos cuadritos de acetato, así no se arruga y está protegido de objetos punzantes y arañazos. Pude ver el sol con nitidez y una pequeña mancha solar.
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2021
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Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2017
