I mentioned this on another thread.
I was a professional photo journalist. My beat was sports, but I did political events from time to time.
When an event is televised no one is allowed to use flashes. There are some reasons for this, and none of them are related to seizures. One reason is that the flash on a pro camera is strong, and pretty long. Your eye reacts to it alright, but a video camera would not. It would leave a hot spot for a few seconds in the video as the sensors recovered.
The second reason is that it will screw up the white balance. Every flash has its own white balance. Since a strobe would over-power the studio lights for 1/250th of a second, the entire video picture will be “off” for a couple of seconds.
The third reason is that watching it on TV with flashes going off is annoying. Anyone watching a basketball game can tell you that constant flashing wrecks the experience.
Flashes CAN induce seizures. My daughter is one of them.
The flash units being banned from the event is not unusual. In fact, if they allowed flashes in there during the debate would be “news.”
Ok...now suggest that I am a Hillary bot because I know what I am talking about.
“now suggest that I am a Hillary bot because I know what I am talking about.”
Thanks for the explanation. I like explanations much better than bare naked assertions.