But is that enough energy to cause damage? Its clearly not a huge problem otherwise cases with camera covers would probably be common.
I don't think its worth most users worrying about it. But definitely don't point your camera at the sun on purpose.
These are for more sensitive cameras with much larger lenses, and correspondingly, physical shutters.
Smartphone cameras don't have one, there must be a reason they don't need it.
I'm not convinced by this post really, I'm sure pointing your camera at the sun with it on will cause damage. But I don't believe that smartphone cameras are as susceptible as photography cameras. If they were they'd have a physical shutter.
But they don't so either the sensor is harder to damage while it's off, or the smartphone lens just isn't big enough (or focused enough) to be an issue. Not to mention they have uv and infraded filters too.
Another other explanation I can think of is that sun isn't likely to be barreling down a smartphone lens often enough to be a problem.
Where I live in north america, the sun never resides directly overhead, so maybe that minimizes damge.
Or maybe it just requires a lot more exposure that its not likely to be a problem for the life of the device.
Either way, unless you are an optical engineer for a smartphone company, I remain unconvinced. It seems to be a rather rare problem that most users shouldn't worry about.
I have similar feelings with The Tale of the Princess Kaguya.
Recent controversy over an absurdly high failure rate.
https://www.theverge.com/22291828/sandisk-extreme-pro-portable-my-passport-failure-continued
Might be fixed now, but i wouldn't gamble.
Your best bet is probably to make your own.
Find a high quality NVMe drive and put it in a USB enclosure.
If the USB ports or anything other than the drive fail, the data is easily recoverable.
Given your use case, buying an external drive is probably fine, just don't get one from SanDisk.
Give it a decade and economies of scale, and maybe it will get it down to twice as expensive.
If housing was true free market, demand would drive new construction.
But its not, developers are artificially constrained into building inefficient single family homes, or giant luxury condos due to zoning and other hindering regulations.
Removing these regulations would allow new upstarts to vastly undercut the current market leading to more affordable housing.
Calcium carbonate, is the main ingredient in tums, and is the main component of limestone.
I thought it was a great episode, it was a fun self contained episode.
I for one look forward to seeing them experiment more.
Unless you are out for a very brief period of time, being unconscious is a seriously bad sign. Like brain hemorrhaging which left untreated will kill you.
Admiral Pasalk may not have been evil, but he was a jerk.