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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wornish" data-source="post: 428909" data-attributes="member: 15434">I guess its like when shooting the moon, the longer the lens the better so from your list use the 70-300 at 300mm it will give you a bigger disk.You don't say what filter you are going to use but as per the other thread you need at least 16 stops of filtering so thats either a special filter or two stacked together.Whatever you do DONT look through the viewfinder, use Live View.If you are using live view you can manually focus on the sun.  You should set the aperture on the lens at its optimum usually f5.6  to f/8.  Then with camera in Aperture priority and the lens in Manual focus fire away.The only thing you can't fix is CLOUDS  so hope for good weather.</blockquote>