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Explanation: Camera's have capacitors that charge up in order for the flash to happen. They are usually quite powerful. Now during the discharge (aka flash) what you have is very high energy electrons flowing across the wire creating aa magnetic field, coupled with the electric field of the electron you get a mild EMP.

And if it is light sensitivity then it should be tested with a bright continuous light



Which is completely incorrect. There is a light sensitive chip on the board. They state which chip it is in the link.


The entire purpose of a camera flash is to create a directed electromagnetic pulse.


I am SO going to start referring to flash-lights as directed electromagnetic pulse generators, albeit ones with higher than normal pulse durations.


The entire purpose? Not really. I think it has something to do with a mess of directed photons.


For a "that's the joke" - light is on the EM spectrum, so a flash directing light will direct an EM pulse. :)


Do you discern some difference between "light" and "electromagnetic radiation"? Because the former is a subclass of the latter.




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