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[-] Steve@startrek.website 13 points 3 days ago

Really only for tempered glass like car windows. Regular glass would just get a little ding.

[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago

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

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Redjard@reddthat.com 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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 2 days ago

that's true, good point

[-] deus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago
[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago

Allegedly allegedly allegedly

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[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

So you allege.

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