Lasers can damage your Canon HDSLR camera’s CMOS sensor

Lasers used in a light show have damaged a Canon EOS 5D Mark II (reviews) CMOS sensor and I sure didn’t know it was possible, but I thought I’d get a warning out since it appears to have damaged this guy’s sensor. I would suspect that all CMOS sensors are probably susceptible – including Nikon, Sony, Panasonic etc., but maybe because we’re using larger lenses on the HDSLR cameras would tend to focus more of the laser’s beam on the sensor (I’m no scientist so I’m just guessing here, but it makes some sense). While it appears to be mostly safe and not common to get damage (you’ll see in the video that several lasers hit the camera but only one caused the damage), we thought you should know.

Alamak, sensor getting damaged by lasers? I think it is the same when shooting direct sun light. Let's say you do long exposure on it, take a black pic with long exposure and you will see more dead pixels popping up.