I was in Bilbao today and decided to drive 2 hours west to Burgos and watched the eclipse from the castle grounds there, at about 3,000 ft altitude. There were perhaps 2,000-3,000 people there. Totality lasted about 90 secs. The most astonishing thing was to see the eclipse happen through the high filter glasses until it went dark then take them off to see the eclipse itself with the naked eye. It looked like a movie special effect. All photos below with an old iPhone. There were many photographers there but it was impractical to set up properly.

The key will be an excellent prism finder or electronic finder to aid manual focusing. Or perhaps some iteration of Fuji’s rangefinder style focusing aids.

I believe a stripped down full frame or APS-C would appeal (size of LX or Super A), but no AF would be a deal breaker .

It is in Bilbao where I will be

I will be in Spain and will try to see it but not planning to any photos.

Thank you.

The second one is excellent.

The house looks splendid.

I have not been anywhere interesting this weekend - just rationalising some of my photo kit and inspired by other forum members, pulled together enough kit to make a negative scanning rig using a Novoflex bellows and stand and macro stage. I will need to fabricate a negative holder (or buy something).

The first three are my favorites. Excellent photos.

Out of interest, what was your kit?

Impressive. Let's see some photos form this beast.