Watching the eclipse by putting an ND10 filter infront my eye?

Get proper filter specs or use the 'hole in paper' reflected onto white paper method.
 
Regardless - nothing will help me see through the clouds!
 
I wasn't going to bother, but it was cloudy, so I stuck my never-before-used 10 stop on a lens and hand held at silly ISO on a D5200!

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We looked through my big stopper but there was also thick cloud. My 3 year old did the pampers box method. He did spot a crescent shape in it but was happier to play robot.
 
Looked through ND10 held in front of one eye - thought at 64 as I still have two I could spare one!
Then added a variable ND and rotated and it eventually went totally black so tried on 28-300 and got a couple of pics.
1/4000 hand held - forgot about ISO.
Someday I will learn how to post pictures up
 
Charles, a quick and easy method is to resize the image (I do it in camera for speed and convenience) then use the Upload a File button at the bottom right of the quick reply box.
 
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It depends. I measured a plan glass lens protection filter for IR blocking and found it blocked quite a bit. I then measured my 10 stop filter and found it blocked so much heat that what was getting through was unmeasurable. Someone with better equipment said he'd measured a few 10 stop filters and found that for IR they were mostly only 6 stop IR filters. I guess my crude measurements would find a 6 stop reduction as letting through an unmeasurasble amount. So the answer to your question about your filter is that nobody knows. Since a quick glance at the sun with the named eye is OK, obviously a quick glance through your big stopper will be OK, but since the damage is painless you shouldn't stare through it.
 
Just a rather boring one of the maximum eclipse as seen from Fife...


Eclipse 2 by George on Talk Photography
 
Hi I got pictures like last one from George as well as the others. I used an old Sony Alpha 200 with tamron 150 300 lens ISO 100 1/4000 F45 here in York.
I just held a Cokin polariser filter in front and looked through it at the sun occasionally. No problems. I didn't feel any difficulty in looking. Have done this before back in 1999 when we had the last one. This one was better.
 
As a basic rule-of-thumb if you can make out defined edges in the image then it's probably not bright enough to do you any damage. If you're seeing a glaring indistinct blob, don't look at it for too long.

Not that this advice is of much use anymore.
 
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