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submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
 
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[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 12 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

A little ding is enough to render a camera lens pretty useless.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

A cracked lens still takes pictures pretty well without any visual artefacts

[–] Redjard@reddthat.com 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Most lenses only care about the angular light distribution, essentially averaging over the lens surface. So a ding or crack would just add a tiny portion of grey or black to the entire image

Edit: This is for cracking the front protective glass of a camera lens. If an actual optical lens splits in two it will be misaligned and bad things will happen.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

that's true, good point

[–] deus@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Allegedly allegedly allegedly

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[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

So you allege.