I'm wondering how such a SLR sensor from an HD camera would be prone to laser induced damage, even with a properly settled beam attenuation map, so the laser power will not exceed 10-15% of the max power where the camera will be located? The show will run on full darkness so no need of mega power to obtain a nice effect. And the camera will be placed at 15-20 meters from the laser apertures.
As we can see horrible video footages on youtube et cie, most of the time showing a line across the picture appearing right after the laser hit the camera...
I have a bit less than 4 watts in my center RGB (1.8W 640, 1W 532 and 1W 445), and two satellites with 1W 532 + 1.8W 445, the three with a divergence of 1.5 - 2 mrad... I have a show tonight and a friend planned to film it, but I'm quite reticent to damage its 10'000$ camera... And don't had the time to set up a dead zone (moreover, a completely dead zone will make the show look not that nice...).