sean_benn

Yes jeff I have seen those videos of sensor getting damaged by a laser on YouTube so I always knew that lasers are really bad for our camera sensors but i guess the damage happens because the laser light is already a pinpointed one and it is very easily focussed towards the sensor than a sun.

But with a flashlight all i was worried about was the intensity of the brightness of the light since I thought all those bright lumens can be damaging to the sensor.Also the link above points out that those sensors that were damaged by the lasers were all attached to a lens.

So does that mean any bright source of light which is passed directly towards the sensor is far more forgiving than the one passed through a lens?Is that right?Also what if the light source is also very very close to the sensor?

Yes I did buy a rocketblower and sensor brush for cleaning the dust if any are found and yes I do know it was foolish of me to try and check the sensor with a flashlight from the phone instead of looking through a loupe or taking shots at apertures larger than f/16 orf/22 and checking them at100%.Also I have taken pictures of the sun but that was with the lens at f/32 or f/36 and that was using the lens cap and a lot of chimping between shots.So I know there was very less light striking the camera that time .But with a phone's flashlight although not bright as a sun but when directed at a bare open sensor isn't the intensity more bright especially considering that there is no lens to protect the sensor from that excess light.?And that is what I am precisely worried about whether the light intensity of a phone's flash is more than enough to cause sensor damage or is it within the permissible limits of a sensor? And right now I am more worried about sensor damage than the dust since the former is the one which will seriously impact my camera and my pictures and the mere thought of damage has made me pretty worried.

I am pretty new to the DSLR/mirror less

or even the interchangeable lens systems

world.So please excuse my queries. I

have a Sony a6000 which is my first

interchangeable lens camera.Yesterday

night I thought of looking whether the

camera sensor has any dust.And this was

my first time checking the sensor after I

bought the camera.Now the issue here is

to check any dust since my room is

poorly lit I used my smartphone's flash

to look into the bare naked camera sensor

(without lens and lens cap). It was just

for a couple of seconds or three when I

realized that it might be bad to use a

bright light direct on the sensor. Since

then I am going paranoid whether I did

any damage to my sensor.I know that

very bright objects such as sun can

damage the sensor but what about the

flash light from a smartphone to the bare

sensor.Can it damage the sensor in any

way?Also is there any test to find out

whether I did any possible damage to the

sensor or not?