How does one go about photographing a solar eclipse? I've

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How does one go about photographing a solar eclipse?

I've seen videos and articles where people tried to do that, and melted their camera sensors. But they were all doing long exposures, and I haven't seen any for short exposures.

I have a D-SLR (D3100), and haven't taken photos of the sun before. But with the aperture and shutter speeds maxed out (minimised for the ISO). I also have an FDR-AX100/b, and I really cannot imagine doing damage to for pointing it at the sun with it set to similar settings. But the science doesn't seem to support me on this one.

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