just wondering, i remember reading it somewhere that it will spoilt ur sensor if you point your camera to direct sun light. How true is that ? and why ?

Say like i accidentally set couple of second, biggest aperture and aim it to the sun and press snap. I will get white picture, but will that spoil the sensor of the camera or any other part of it ?

yeah it will, and it might not. Chances are it will damage your sensor. Imagine your lens focusing the sun's ray into your sensor. Remember last time when u were a kid then u grab those magnifying glass and point it towards a dead leaf in close range under the sun?

yeah it will, its just like looking at the sun with your naked eye. Consider Hard ND Filters if you have sunny objects considering the "couple of seconds"

Just tke pictures of the dawn and it will be great and beautiful...
If you snap a pic of a bright lit sun, you won't get anything but a white patch.... Why snap at a afternoon sun anyway??

To show that it's an afternoon sun.

This post has been edited by jdreamer: Feb 28 2007, 01:34 PM

Lol... point at a glaring sun to show that it's afternoon sun? Dont think anybody will do that for nothing..

at least shooting eclipse is smth but scorching sun? :S

I was joking.

spoilt then buy new one la

haha, yalor
old one not spoilt how to get new one?

yea rite... a tehh.. alot of money hohh....

sensor destroy is a small matter but those with dslr ...... definately damage your eyes. so photographer jumping from non-dslr to dslr pls take note that you are actually looking throught the lens and not at the lcd - so your eyes are not protected from the sun

if u like so much sun u can take it as long as u see the sun.... be prepared with the focus and shoot when u aim the sun... i got shoot on it..... but will the sun spoil my cam.. i ve taken few shoots...

erm, cool i sort of got it, u know how manual can always be a problem, u forgot to change the setting, and i'm not going to look at the viewfinder, kill my eye

i think the Sun is too far for us to SHOOT , but those days when we used to hav 7 Suns , 1 fella did manage to SHOOT 6 down and left 1 until now, can't recall his name and which gear he used...

Just my cold joke, don't SHOOT me...

i do point my lens into the sun, but jsut play with zoom in and out (not taking pic / thus sensor not exposed to the sun) its to kill germs + potential fungus for now..

whoa like that also boleh