Will aiming the camera at a laser when taking photos damage the lens ?

Have you ever experienced problems with your camera when taking photos of lasers?

Perhaps you went to a light show with your family or friends and took a lot of photos with your phone, but later returned to find something wrong with the camera of your phone.

When you took photos with it again, you found the screen crisscrossed with some strange horizontal and vertical lines. Why is this?

You may never have thought that aiming at a laser when taking photos will cause damage to your camera! Why can a laser damage your camera? A laser, also known as a laser beam, features high energy and precise focus. An ordinary light radiates power evenly across an entire space, with only a small portion entering the human eye or a camera lens. However, the power density produced by a laser is far higher than that produced by an ordinary light.

Therefore, a laser is more likely to cause irreversible damage to the retina or the sensor when coming into contact with the human eye or the camera. The sensor is one of the most important components of a camera. If you aim an ordinary camera or a phone camera at a laser when taking photos, the sensor is extremely likely to be burned, resulting in abnormal images, strange spots, or horizontal and vertical lines on the screen.

Excessive laser energy will burn the sensor, resulting in abnormal images If possible, try not to aim your camera at a laser when taking photos. Frequently used lasers, such as those seen at laser light shows, concerts, and bars as well as those emitted by laser pens, may cause damage to camera lenses.

Most ordinary light sources emit divergent light which does not show any obvious direction; however, a laser travels in an obvious direction. You should not aim your camera at a light source that emits something like a undefined In addition to your phone camera, you should also pay attention to this when you use an SLR camera or a video camera. How do you protect your phone camera in daily life? Wipe the screen over the front camera and the lens of the rear camera with a dust-free cloth or a glasses cleaning cloth on a regular basis. Ensure that there are no impurities on the cloth to avoid scratching the lens and the screen.

Do not put your phone with any hard object in order to prevent the latter from scratching the screen over the front camera and the lens of the rear camera during movement. The phone and the laser drawn in this picture are only used for demonstration purposes. Please refer to the specific object in use.