A CdS photocell would not be suitable for high frequency light sensing: The rise + fall time for common CdS cells are of the order of tens to hundreds of milliseconds. For instance, this randomly picked datasheet mentions 60 mS rise time and 25 mS fall time. Thus the highest frequency it can handle is below 11 Hertz. More @Wikipedia
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