BP-1212 - Silver-Black Polymer Solar Filter Film Sheet (12" x 12") - 1 ea

works great !! easy to cut. easy to use. absolutely love it !! i got mine back in April 2023 and ive almost used it all now. used my 3D Printer to make adapters to use this for my telescope and finder scopes. i got a 130mm telescope for xmas and just used the last large piece i had left.

It's the real deal, made in the USA. This stuff was more valuable than gold in the days before the GAE and everybody wanted it. I tested it against various high-brightness sources such as high intensity 5W LED flashlights, and a 100mW 395nm UV laser. You could see the LED die structure in great detail with the minimal amount of light that would pass. This filter material would be perfect for inspecting LED die structures or as a means of taking low intensity measurements for quality control. The UV laser would not pass through the filter at near 100%. Only the occasional photon or two would pass when moving the laser at different angles, due to what I think is scattering. I tested some of the recalled solar viewing glasses from China and found that there was varying degrees of UV light passage in about 30% of my sample. Please, folks, don't do this kind of testing with your eyes and instead use a camera as a sensor. I made various camera filters out of the filter film by carefully tracing the glass element of a disassembled UV filter and then reassembling the filter with the film behind the glass. Even my besting cutting skills weren't enough to prevent imperfection around the edges, and that is why I put it on the backside. The compression of the glass ensured the filter film was against the back inside edge of the black anodized aluminum UV filter assembly and prevented any light bleed. Ideally, laser cutting these would be better. For personal viewing with my 20-100 x 70mm monster binoculars, I crafted two identical cardboard tube rings around the outside edge of the objective lenses with a few wraps of coiled 2" wide card stock cut from cereal boxes and then a few wraps of tape to hold them together. I then put strong double-sided tape around the outside of the tube rings. The filter film was cut into 3/4" oversized circles using appropriately sized round plastic food containers as a template. I then set the binoculars upright with these card stock ring sleeves and centered them over the pre-cut circular filter films. With everything aligned and pressed against the filter film and a cutting surface, I cut outward radial slits into the film "over-sized area" around the peripheral of the card stock rings at 1/2" intervals. This allows one to fold these "flaps" of film onto the sides of the tubes and double sided tape, to tape everything together. A few more layers of silvered Mylar tape were wrapped around these flaps to seal everything up. Complete totality was observed from Franklin, MO, which is on the center line of totality for the GAE and provided us 2m 39s of viewing. The local weather conditions were slightly hazy, and so we were able to make out detail on the surface of the moon due to the slight dimming of the Corona. It was the most amazing astronomical convergence I've ever seen. If you missed it, you really missed it.

nice sheet of material which can be cut and taped on filter holders for my cameras. The filter does a good job of filtering sun's energy to a point it can be comfortably viewed by eyes. The sun appears to be an orange orb which is normal. If you're going to take photographs of the sun, use this filter and put the camera on a tripod. to get the sun pics. Exposing for the sun through the filter, everything but the sun will be very dark, almost blacked out. If you want some of the surrounding landscape for context, keep your camera on the tripod, then wait for the sun to move out of frame, take a few pictures exposed properly for the landscape and then stack all of your photos as an HDR image in your favorite photo editing software.

Worked great for my camera, binoculars, and telescope for the 2024 eclipse.

The eclipse came and went and because I was able to get one of Thousand Oaks Optical's silver-black polymer filter sheet, at least 20 people were lucky enough to safely view the workings of our solar system. With the 12"x12" solar filter sheet I made 8 eclipse viewers and used the remaining piece to make solar filters for my binoculars. I caught at least three people in my neighborhood looking at the eclipse without any filters and relying on the cloud cover to "protect" their eyes! So not only did this filter material help some people see the eclipse safely, it probably saved a few people's sight! Hopefully I'll make it to an eclipse's path of totality one day, and if I do I'll be buying more of Thousand Oaks Optical's filter sheets. The image this filter material produces is exceptionally clear and the color is much closer to the warm orange most people are familiar with when we see the sun without a filter just after sunrise or as it approaches sunset (as opposed to the truer yet harsher white color of the unfiltered sun near its zenith and reproduced by the silver-silver filter material).

Over all good. But it’s delicate. Came with a little pinch towards the bottom middle. Seems expensive for what it is. But it works well. Didn’t try it yet with telescope. Works as advertised,.. thin and delicate… 4 stars seemed fair

It takes little effort to make perfectly serviceable filters for solar viewing, and the color rendition when using this film is a pleasant orange-yellow. It seems expensive but goes farther than you think. A 10"x10" sheet will easily make four or more DSLR lens-sized filters, with probably more material left over for a small phone lens cover and a couple of quick DIY pairs of eclipse glasses.

Purchased the larger size in order to make multiple filters - 1 for my 8 inch dob and another fir my digital camera. Has worked great so far. When viewing through dob, have not noticed any image degradation. Slight softness noted in image on digital camera when zoomed in fully on a 30", but yields great result if using an 800 mm or larger lens where minimal cropping will be needed.

普通に使えています。欲を言うと、コスパの点では少し評価を下げたい気持ちもありますが、今後の使用してからの劣化度を見て考えたいと思います。

I have tried the film in front of my camera lens and it blocked the glare of sunlight as expected and left me with a clear image of the suns disk to comfortably and safely view through my camera and telescope.

アメリカの皆既日蝕に使いました。ちょうど良い厚みです。事前にテスト撮影して撮影条件に反映させました。次回も同じ商品を購入したいと思います。

ぼんやり黒点が見える程度です。 安価なので、どのような物なのか試してみる程度です。 日食メガネに付いてるのと同等品でしょうね。

If you are looking to take quality pictures, stay away from this Heavy color cast, most likely due to the filtering itself, will need heavy color adjustment in post or AWB.But that is not my primary complain Destroys the quality of your photo. Even after using the recommended way to mount it using rubber bands, there is light leak no matter what you do. Although the notes said that the wrinkles will not make a difference, I made sure the area in front of the lens was smooth and flat with no wrinkles and you can see the quality in the attached. Got washed out, bands appearing, loss of clarity. Also, note that you'll need longer exposure times even at the widest aperture (say F2 or 2.8) and if you are trying to get the sun at golden hour, you'll have already lost the game. Sun will move much quicker leaving a trail in your picture. If you are planning on using a telephoto lens, the f stop is not going to get any better and you'll end up higher exposure times. Going higher ISOs will ruin your shot too. You can see the results also vary from photo to photo, so cant even get the right standard color cast to set a custom white balance within the camera to avoid post. You may eventually get it right playing around but if you are a golden hour sun catcher, you have no time to waste and fiddle around. Just put your money in a proper glass filter with the right thread size. If any of the 5 star reviewers have any inputs for me to be able to fix this, please reach out to me on my ig ra5kar Hoping I can return this but it has incurred some wrinkles from wrapping around the lens.