I wonder if a strong neutral density filter would help any? (As if such lighting is already tricky enough to film or photograph. But I won't risk my own equipment to find out. There are also laser safety glasses, but a quick search doesn't show much in the way of specialty lens filters with the same qualities.)

Seems understandable though, it's also why you don't shoot towards the sun during mid-day either.

Can't be good to get hit in the eyes either. But if the injury isn't too bad, it will eventually heal. Somebody that thought they were funny with a "cat-toy" laser pointer left me with an after image and a migraine for a day and a half. (It healed up eventually - no noticable blind spot, but think of the "tracer" you see from a camera flash not going away as quickly.) Some places actually have rules that restrict such lighting so it doesn't go into the crowd because of eye-injury incidents.

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