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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Redjard@reddthat.com 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 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 11 hours ago

that's true, good point