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Old January 13th 19, 02:26 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
Neil[_9_]
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Default Camera trashed by LIDAR laser. How about human eyes?

On 1/13/2019 9:08 AM, RichA wrote:
On Sunday, 13 January 2019 05:20:22 UTC-5, Alfred Molon wrote:
In article fd27b3e2-f9b8-4049-af66-90504d80c1b0
@googlegroups.com, says...

https://petapixel.com/2019/01/12/man...ing-car-laser/

They claim that the human eye is protected by the cornea
which acts as a filter. I wonder if they could add such
a protection filter (against LIDAR lasers) to digital
cameras.
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Alfred Molon

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I'm still not convinced. So it absorbs the IR before it hits the retina, what's the effect of rapid heating on the cornea? Any IR filter strong enough to screen-out a high-power laser hit will make the camera unusable.

Why would that be? IR is not a range that is normally included in
photographs, so having a removable filter would be a good thing. If
someone was intent on taking IR images, just remove the filter and stop
shooting self-driving cars.

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Neil