Shutterbugsailer Loc: Staten Island NY (AKA Cincinnati by the Sea)

I am planning to photograph the eclipse next week. I don't have any protective lens filters or eyewear. I do have a Panasonic G1 mirrorless camera that I am willing to sacrifice as long as I don't endanger my eyes. If I point the lens towards the sun and look only at the LCD screen, am I risking anything other than the camera?

Donwitz Loc: Virginia Beach, VA

If you are in a location where you can observe totality, that is the only phase of the eclipse that can be safely observed without protection for your eyes. I recommend using the pinhole method of observation to allow safe viewing. You can also photograph the image projected through the pinhole. https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/projection

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

A foolish move without eye and camera protection.

Don

jimpitt

Strongly suggest you protect yourself (and your camera) from damage. Most especially your eyes.
If you need to trash the useless Panasonic, so what.
Maybe do a quick upgrade to Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, Leica, or Olympus. Your overall quality of photography will be improved in the future.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

If you want protection at this time, try welders glass of ND 16 to ND 19. If you can see the sun through the glass, then it is safe for both your eyes and camera. I have used a ND 18 welders glass for all day viewing and all day camera protection for two total eclipses. Unless you use a camera filter of ND 16.5 stops or more (not the NDs of 1 to 3 stops used for making silky waterfalls), your camera will very quickly become "toast" and useless. Once you burn the camera's sensor, the back screen of a mirrorless is useless for viewing. Thousand Oaks sells filters for cameras and eyes. And that is the one other safety point. Only some filters shut out both the light and the UV rays. If you fail to cut out the UV rays, your permanent eye damage will occur within 24 hours. There are always some ignorant people that have eye damage with every total eclipse after not following proper eye safety. At this late a time, welders glass may be your best bet. It will stop the high light intensity and UV rays of welding as well as the light and UV rays of the sun.

And one more bit of information: Once the moon covers the sun disc totally (totality), no eye protection will be needed for one's eyes or camera. Your will have only 3 or 4 minutes of totality so use them wisely.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

Not only is it dangerous but you won’t see anything but one big blown highlight with no detail at all.

C 1995 O1 Loc: Catonsville, Maryland

I recommend a doing it the right way
This was my set up, with proper filter, for the last eclipse in 2017.
Anything else is not worth the risk.
Never gaze at the sun eclipsed or not unless it is in total eclipse phase.

1grumpybear

Don't even think about it. You need at least a ND16 or more. You will fry your camera and you eye and still not get any pictures. Both of my cameras will have ND16 filters and using snapbridge to view what the camera is seeing.

Bill 45

I second that.

Ballangrud Loc: Vermont

I was in Hopkinsville Ky, back in 2017 and I took some great solar eclipse photos using a Formatt Hitech Firecrest Neutral Density 5.4 Solar Eclipse Filter (18-Stops). My camera was a Nikon D810 with a 300mm lens.