[PJ-Comix]

Watch out for ccd chip burn-in. I had permanent damage to a digital camera from lightning image capture. Now, that was back in 2000. It was a brand new Kodak digital camera and they replaced it without incident. I think the storage module at the time was 64 meg.

I don't think we have that problem anymore. I recorded a lightning strike on a pier at the beach back around 2009 on my cell camera. I thought it was a magnificent shot until I looked at it and that entire strike was blacked out. Low res camera as was typical on cell phones back then.

[PJ-Comix]

Actually that incident with the lightning hitting the pier might have happened 5 years later in 2014 because we were with a friend of my wife’s that we didn’t meet until several years after 2009. No matter. My 2014 android phone also had a low res camera.

[George from New England]

No I had great lightning images back in 2000. Its just pixels were damaged and all subsequent shots had the defect visible.