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Above: Total Solar Eclipse series, Lake Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, February 26, 1979.  Quantum 4 prime focus with Minolta camera body, Kodacolor 400 film, 1/60 sec exposure (for totality).  Totality lasted 2 min 50 sec.  Next total eclipse visible from North America will be in 2017.
Below:  Closeup of Totality
Below: Total Solar Eclipse, Hawaii, July 11, 1991.  Quantum 4 prime focus with Nikon FG camera body, Ektar 100 film, 1/60 sec exposure.  Totality lasted 4 min 08 sec.  We moved constantly from first contact along Highway 19 on the Big Island, finding a hole in the clouds at mile marker 96 three or four minutes before totality.  For eclipses, "mobility, mobility, mobility" is the key!
Left: Total Solar Eclipse, Aruba, February 26, 1998 .  Quantum 4 prime focus with Minolta camera body, Kodacolor 1000 film, 1/500 sec exposure.  Totality lasted 3 min 32 sec.  Camera operated by my friend, David Bohman.