Lasers can be the death of modern digital cameras. That's not an exaggeration. Perhaps you've found this out the hard way yourself, and if you didn't know this fact before you might want to be more careful where you point your camera at festivals, fairgrounds, and light shows.
The highly concentrated light beam from a laser can easily overwhelm a digital sensor and the high frequency wavelengths of a highly focused laser beam can rapidly heat up a digital camera sensor causing irreparable damage. The aftermath of even a brief split-second exposure to a direct laser light source often requires a brand-new sensor and is rarely cost-effective to repair. In short, the damage can be a write-off, requiring a totally brand-new camera.
