skywolf

You would be safe with the LCD on the back of the camera, but without a solar filter of the proper type, you put your vision and your camera at risk. Even with your camera protected, DO NOT LOOK AT THE ECLIPSE WITHOUT PROPER GLASSES! It's difficult to take good pictures if you're blind. If you don't have the right protective filters/glasses, try getting to a place where you can photograph the ensuing darkness, people watching the show, the reactions of animals to the eclipse. Keep a pair of the special eclipse glasses in case the urge to see what happens gets too strong. And even with those, don't look at the sun for more than a few seconds at a time. Vision damage from the eclipse IS PERMANENT!

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

Without a filter, you will be able to view it in you EVF until your sensor burns up. I don't exactly know how long that takes since I am not willing to sacrifice my E-M1 mrII. But I am certain that it is a relatively short time. The pixels saturate quickly with full sunlight without a filter. This generates heat - and lots of it. Since it does not have a good way to get rid of all that heat, it fries the pixel. The only "good" news about this is you just fried your sensor, not your eyes. I think you will still be angry anyway since you now have to sent your camera out to get a new sensor. Even though I do not know an exact number, I would imagine that it definitely under five minutes. I know that if you shoot high speed shots continuously the camera eventual heats up and stops because of a thermistor on the back side of the sensor. Once the sensor cools down enough, the camera will start operating again. But in the case of sunlight, there is no cooling down with continuous sunlight. There is only the burning up of your sensor.

Unless you are taking photos of the totality, you have to use a filter for for the partial eclipse. If you are not in that 70 mile wide band that totality occurs in, you will only have a partial eclipse and cannot take your filter off. Everyone in the USA will see a partial eclipse. Only the people that go to that narrow 70 mile wide band will see the totality.