what happens when you shoot directly at the sun?
no damage will occur, so long as you don't do anything silly like shoot with f/1.4, and shoot for 60 seconds with bulb mode. in such a scenario, i have not tried it before, and i don't want to try, i suppose your lens will just focus the sun on one portion of your sensor and.. well, you can imagine what that would do with such a long exposure.
most into-the-sun conditions, even with hdr bracketing, you will not damage your sensor, honestly, i have done it a lot of times, and all my cameras from p&s to dslr all work fine.
thanks for ur quick replies!=)
i just tried shooting in the sun at f16 with a 1/2000 shutter speed. produced a very nice sun star? or whatever you call it. just hope it doesn't spoil the sensor. haha.
any other opinions?
OOPS!
Apologies. TS did title the thread "Shooting the Sun" and not having the sun as part of the photo or 'shooting at/towards the sun'.
My bad.
haha..my bad..i was trying to shoot the sun too. but was just thinking whether it would spoil the sensor..
what happens when you shoot directly at the sun?
no damage will occur, so long as you don't do anything silly like shoot with f/1.4, and shoot for 60 seconds with bulb mode. in such a scenario, i have not tried it before, and i don't want to try, i suppose your lens will just focus the sun on one portion of your sensor and.. well, you can imagine what that would do with such a long exposure.
most into-the-sun conditions, even with hdr bracketing, you will not damage your sensor, honestly, i have done it a lot of times, and all my cameras from p&s to dslr all work fine.