Just for the record, when photographing the sunset I changed from jpeg to RAW when I saw how bad the results were appearing on the LCD. I had been working on daylight colour balance. But to no avail -- no amount of fiddling with the colour temperature or exposure compensation had any significant effect. I'm sure this is a chip thing.
And yes, it's always important to stress the safety aspect when viewing the Sun. Even through the viewfinder you can burn your retina, and your inbuilt reflex to look away from a bright light does not operate when there is a lot of IR in the source, though the IR can do a lot of damage. I used an ND filter to start with until the Sun was very dimmed by the atmosphere. This June there will be a transit of Venus, when the planet crosses the face of the Sun for the first time in over 120 years. But the safest way to observe it without specialist equipment will be to project its image onto white card using a telescope or binoculars, and photograph the projected image. Robin Scagell Galaxy Picture Library =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
