Is it harmful to your eyes to watch the sun with your mobile phone or camera?

The most important thing to pay attention to when observing the solar eclipse is to reduce the light and protect the light. If you watch the solar eclipse directly with the naked eye or through your mobile phone and camera, it will do harm to your eyes. Ultraviolet rays and infrared rays in sunlight can burn the macula of the retina, which leads to "solar retinitis".

Macula is the most sensitive part of retina, which makes light converge and makes the image clear. Once burned, the macula will never recover. When you are burned, you may not feel it, but you will react after a few hours, and in severe cases, you will be blind.

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Watching the sun with a mobile phone or camera will not only hurt your eyes, but also do great harm to your mobile phone and camera. The photosensitive elements in mobile phones and cameras are CCD and CMOS. If the sun is photographed for a long time, too strong light will damage the photosensitive element of COMS or CCD lens.

Therefore, whether shooting or observing the solar eclipse, measures should be taken to reduce the light and protect it. You can wear a special observation mirror to enjoy the solar eclipse. Before shooting, you must install Budd film or ND 100000 high magnification mirror in front of the camera lens. During the solar eclipse, sunglasses and low-magnification mirrors can't play a good protective role.