Why/how does pointing a laser damage a camera? Is it fixable?
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pointing a laser at a camera doesn’t damage it. pointing a laser at a camera’s sensor does.
think of the sensor as kind of like your retina. get hit with a bright enough light, you get blinded.
now lasers are typically very strong and focused light sources. hit the sensor and you’ll quite literally burn it, blinding the camera.
Basically it overloads the photocell that actually detects light. You know how if you look at a bright light and look away there’s spots in your vision for a while? It’s like that. The photocell converts bright into electricity and the laser will cause it to make so much electricity it shorts something out or burns out a resistor, capacitors, or some other electrical component.
If restarting the camera doesn’t fix it then it’s probably not fixable short of replacing the sensor.
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