A warning from NASA! Especially for North America’s smartphone users, who are all wondering about shooting the Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024, since it could damage their phone cameras.
A total solar eclipse will occur today and will first appear along Mexico’s Pacific Coast at around 11:07 a.m. PDT, then travel across a swatch of the US, from Texas to Maine, and into Canada. Smartphone users with high-end camera specs, such as Samsung Galaxy smartphone owners, must be wondering about shooting a solar eclipse, so it’s a warning for them to avoid shooting since it could damage their phone camera.
Transparently, Samsung Galaxy smartphones feature a high-end camera arrangement with the most advanced camera technology. Although NASA stated that any camera is a good camera to shoot the Solar Eclipse since Galaxy users like the Galaxy S23 Ultra or Galaxy S24 Ultra have premium quality camera specs such as 100x zoom and a 200MP camera lens, obviously they are wondering about shooting this Solar Eclipse to get a closer look, but this can harm their camera lens.
The harm doesn’t mean not capturing the solar eclipse or taking advantage of high-end camera lenses; all they need to do is take precautions to prevent harm to their precious eyes and damage to the camera sensor. This type of astronomical phenomenon harms the naked eye, the same as it applies to phone cameras, meaning pointing the phone’s camera directly at the sun during a total eclipse could be damaged, just as any other image sensor.
NASA says, “This is especially true if you’re using any sort of magnifying lens attachment on the phone.”
Here’s the question: what’s the precaution to avoid camera damage while capturing the total solar eclipse?
The simple answer is that to protect the eyes while seeing any astronomical phenomenon, glasses are recommended. In the same way, to protect your phone camera, you can use eclipse glasses in front of the lens while photographing the sun. We also recommend that smartphone users apply appropriate filters to prevent damage to their camera lenses.
