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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whiskeyman" data-source="post: 370074" data-attributes="member: 13556"><p>Please don't use your viewfinder to shoot this event, but use your camera's LCD display in LiveView mode.  When I shoot sunsets, I keep the camera in live view;  it's much better to burn your sensor than your retina!!  But to keep from burning either, I also keep my camera turned 90 degrees to the sun so that the majority of the time, the image of the solar disc isn't impacting either my lens or camera components.  A quick turn of the camera toward the sun, with the lens set to manual focus and pre-focused to the infinity setting, lets me take a few shots before I return the camera to the 90 degree position.  I'm starting my exposures at ISO 200, 1/1000 sec and f5.6 or f8 with a Nikon 300 f4.5 lens.</p></blockquote><p></p>