diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index ffa3d482..d2d149b0 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -736,6 +736,40 @@ In order to enable this functionality you should add the following:
         },
     }
 
+You could also setup some caches as sentinel and some as not. See the following example:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    SENTINELS = [
+        ('sentinel-1', 26379),
+        ('sentinel-2', 26379),
+        ('sentinel-3', 26379),
+    ]
+
+    CACHES = {
+        "sentinel_cache": {
+            "BACKEND": "django_redis.cache.RedisCache",
+            "LOCATION": "redis://service_name/db",
+            "OPTIONS": {
+                "CLIENT_CLASS": "django_redis.client.SentinelClient",
+                "SENTINELS": SENTINELS,
+                # Enable the alternate connection factory.
+                "CONNECTION_FACTORY": 'django_redis.pool.SentinelConnectionFactory',
+                "CONNECTION_POOL_CLASS": "redis.sentinel.SentinelConnectionPool",
+            },
+        },
+
+        "non_sentinel_cache": {
+            "BACKEND": "django_redis.cache.RedisCache",
+
+            "LOCATION": "redis://minimal_service_name/db",
+
+            "OPTIONS": {
+                "CLIENT_CLASS": "django_redis.client.DefaultClient",
+            },
+        },
+    }
+
 .. _Redis Sentinels: https://redis.io/topics/sentinel
 
 Pluggable parsers
diff --git a/django_redis/client/default.py b/django_redis/client/default.py
index 6886b46b..38c0afd0 100644
--- a/django_redis/client/default.py
+++ b/django_redis/client/default.py
@@ -59,7 +59,18 @@ def __init__(self, server, params: Dict[str, Any], backend: BaseCache) -> None:
         self._serializer = serializer_cls(options=self._options)
         self._compressor = compressor_cls(options=self._options)
 
-        self.connection_factory = pool.get_connection_factory(options=self._options)
+        # First check if local override provided, else fall back to settings
+        connection_factory_path = self._options.get(
+            "CONNECTION_FACTORY",
+            getattr(
+                settings,
+                "DJANGO_REDIS_CONNECTION_FACTORY",
+                "django_redis.pool.ConnectionFactory",
+            ),
+        )
+        self.connection_factory = pool.get_connection_factory(
+            path=connection_factory_path, options=self._options
+        )
 
     def __contains__(self, key: Any) -> bool:
         return self.has_key(key)
diff --git a/django_redis/pool.py b/django_redis/pool.py
index dda3b945..047a5cc1 100644
--- a/django_redis/pool.py
+++ b/django_redis/pool.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 from typing import Dict
 from urllib.parse import parse_qs, urlparse
 
-from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 from django.utils.module_loading import import_string
 from redis import Redis
@@ -178,13 +177,6 @@ def get_connection_pool(self, params):
         return pool
 
 
-def get_connection_factory(path=None, options=None):
-    if path is None:
-        path = getattr(
-            settings,
-            "DJANGO_REDIS_CONNECTION_FACTORY",
-            "django_redis.pool.ConnectionFactory",
-        )
-
+def get_connection_factory(path, options=None):
     cls = import_string(path)
     return cls(options or {})