Quote Originally Posted by Frank S View Post
I don't know if the intensity of the arc flash contributes to long term damage of the electronics of a digital camera but my old Nikon 35 mm if I didn't use several stages of filtering the film would be so over exposed and any aperture setting the developer would not even print the frames for me.
A couple of nights ago I was disappointed that we wouldn't see the ecllipse. So I took a shot on my nikon anyway. It didn't tfr sorry. try again Click image for larger version. 

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