You've probably heard horror stories and seen viral videos of expensive cameras being ruined by lasers and stage lighting. Now Sony has released an official warning on the subject. I feel like it's no secret at this point that lasers are generally a bad thing for digital sensors. Just check out how easy it is for them to get destroyed. The digital sensor is a beautiful thing. It's a miraculously mind-blowing piece of delicate technology that is truly a remarkable feat of microscopic engineering with endless tiny little photosites that can capture light and convert them into an energy signal that is then converted into a beautiful digital image, until— Poof, just like that, the lasers at your brother-in-law's Journey cover band show that you got paid 100 dollars to film just destroyed the whole thing. In what I can only imagine is a response to a decent influx of recent complaints, Sony has released an official statement on their website (published on July 30, 2021, and discovered originally by Image Sensors World) on the matter. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 3 August, 2021