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epsiloneri:
Is anyone planning to shoot the Venus transit tomorrow? From where I live the Sun will rise with Venus transiting, so I'm considering cool sunrise options (weather permitting). A distant familiar building in the foreground, or just the Sun reflecting in open water are some ideas I have. For planning location, I've found Google Earth useful.

In case you wonder if it's worth it: consider that few alive today will have a chance to see another Venus transit. Next one is in December... 2117.

dr croubie:
Yeah, I only just found out about it an hour ago and just packed a whole lot of stuff to take to work tomorrow (will be a lunch-hour shoot).
Jupiter 250/3.5, two 2x TCs (so 1000mm f/14 to f/64), ND400, ND8 stacked, will that be enough? (add an extra Kenko 1.4xTC if i have to).
Also taking 70-300L (although I know it flares like crazy pointing straight at the sun), and a pinhole set (at 42mm they're f/177 pinhole, f/91 zone sieve, f/55 zone plate, plus a metre of extension tubes and bellows), and the lensbaby pinhole why not.
If I cook my 7D, i've also packed the EOS3 with a roll of 50ISO velvia.

Anyone know if that's dark enough? Or should I stop past the local camera shop on the way to work and see if they rent out ND10,000s?

mws:
I'm not going to be able to shoot this, but I'm really excited to see what kind of photos people capture of this.

Also a great bit of software for planing this sort of thing is Stellarium

squarebox:
I'm going to be shooting tomorrow weather permitting... It is suppose to rain in the morning.

I will be shooting with a 18-200 EF-S on a 550D with a ND5 (10,000) filter.  Same i used for shooting the eclipse  a few weeks ago. 

i totally wish i had a longer lens and one that i could use teleconverters with.

I think i read somewhere you need to have at least N3.8 to shoot a solar eclipse.  Just don't look through the viewfinder as it's blocking UV and IR.  Gotta use Liveview.

lol:
I'm planning on it, but the weather is planning otherwise with cloud and rain expected. Also due to my location I have less than 1h window so the chances of getting a clear shot are extremely low.

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