Why is it, on a video camera, the Sun is a Gigantic Black Ball?

Answer 1

The CCD in your camera produces electrons in proportion to the amount of light falling on it. But the Sun is so intense it overloads the chip and those pixels just stop working. It's the electronic equivalent of flash blindness, though it recovers quickly.

Answer 2

Because, with the naked eye, we can see the sun, but even we cant stare at the sun too long, or everything around us is black afterwards. And our eyes start watering, etc.. Camera's wont photograph the sun, because its the strongest source of light form. Were you perhaps, filming an "Eclipse?" I do know that when your takeing a photo, or filming ....if you want good results, the person doing the clicking of the camera, should have his towards the sun, and whomever, or whatever your filming shouldn't be with the sun behind it, or you'll just get too much light and it wouldn't be a very good result, now a little bit of shade around what your filming would do the trick. Not, too much shade, either, though, or you wont get all the details. A nice "Even Medium" should do the trick! Around the time the suns setting are good photo times... Plus, you can then capture some "Beeeaaaauuutiful, Sunset clips" in which I have many!! Good-Luck!!!

Answer 3

You probably have the Illuminati switch turned on in your camera. Expect a visitor in the next 10 minutes. Don't worry, everything's fine.

Answer 4

Because of the intense ammounts of visible and ultraviolet radiation (film is extremely sensitive to all radiation of visible or higher frequencies)

Answer 5

Sometimes its red or purple or blue too. I think it's just ultraviolet radiation.

Answer 6

check u didn't paint ur lens... to red... what a **** IQ u got...