You aren’t supposed to shoot into the sun.  People always told me that.  Not under the sun.  Not under the sun.  First off, you can shoot into the sun if you fill flash it.  When you fill flash into the sun, the results are Vogue Magazine spread gorgeous, but you also need a pretty powerful flash.  The baby flash on the camera doesn’t work that well.

Here, these sun shots are taken with my mini-Canon, so there is no hot shoe, only the baby flash that was obviously not deployed: