The holes in the utensil act like pinhole cameras and each one projects its own image of the Sun. The effect can also be duplicated by forming a small aperture with one's hands and watching the ground below. The pinhole camera effect becomes more prominent with increasing eclipse magnitude. Virtually any camera can be used to photograph the phenomenon, but automatic cameras must have their flashes turned off since this would otherwise obliterate the pinhole images. For those who choose to photograph the 1998 eclipse from one of the many cruise ships in the path, some special comments are in order.
Shipboard photography puts certain limits on the focal length and shutter speeds that can be used.
It's difficult to make specific recommendations since it depends on the stability of the ship as well as wave heights encountered on eclipse day. Certainly telescopes with focal lengths of 1000 mm or more can be ruled out since their small fields of view would require the ship to remain virtually motionless during totality, and this is rather unlikely even given calm seas. A 500 mm lens might be a safe upper limit in focal length. Film choice could be determined on eclipse day by viewing the Sun through the camera lens and noting the image motion due to the rolling sea. If it's a calm day, you might try an ISO 100 film.