Just wanted to share my work for the day, I've been covering the solar eclipse as its path went over China. Video: China watches the solar eclipse | Science | guardian.co.uk (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2009/jul/22/asia-solar-eclipse)

Sadly because of storm clouds I didn't get a view of the sun during the total eclipse but did witness the darkness and a partial eclipse afterwards. I'll try uploading a HD version on Vimeo later.

My gear got a bit wet and so its currently drying out in my hotel room Video: China watches the solar eclipse | Science | guardian.co.uk (http://tinyurl.com/m3jkm3)

Dan

Very nice footage Dan! The only thing that drives me nuts is camera flashes when shooting with the 5DII. I noticed quite a bit of that going on in the vid, but there's not much you can do to avoid it eh? Again, very nice footage. Makes me wish that I was there.

The HD version is now up on Youtube here YouTube - China watches the solar eclipse (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6I4DxTHYhg)

Ryan, you're right the flashes drive me nuts too. To be fair no other camera could have shot that stuff available light and get as good a result anyway. Maybe in the future Canon can give us something like the strobe correction firmware they just put in their HPX-300 model.

Dan

I saw this on the news this morning and wondered if we would have anybody there. It
figures that it would be you, Dan -- Thanks a bunch for posting this! Much appreciated,