Instead of trying to operate his camera manually to take the images, he decided to build a lightning trigger that would do it for him. His circuit uses a large photodiode to sense when lightning ...

Dash camera video captured lightning strike the roadway right next to another driver. The truck driver moves through a cloud ...

“I usually shoot with a digital camera, or in these days ... can purchase a $250 light-sensitive trigger to automatically capture a photo when it senses lightning. While Hahn didn’t splurge ...