Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse
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Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse
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Re: Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse
#2Now imagine that kind of damage being done to your eyes.
It hurts just thinking about it, yet some people don’t seem to really believe the warnings.
Re: Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse
#3Interesting! My assumption is that this could not happen with a phone camera though, correct? Because then one would think just leaving one's phone face down on the table in sunlight would ruin it.
Re: Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse
#4Now imagine that kind of damage being done to your eyes. It hurts just thinking about it, yet some people don’t seem to really believe the warnings.
I'd argue this is slightly worse because the cameras have higher magnification lenses* vs our naked eye. This might be more akin to looking into a telescope with your eyes.
Edit: To elaborate - Higher magnification lenses (depending on the camera lens used of course)
Edit 1: - /u/corndoge Suggests that people may take this the wrong way. I mean to say in the amount of physical damage it's worse for camera's because of the extra (and typically higher magnification lens). I don't mean that a burnt camera is worse then a burnt eye - I'd rather anybody loose tons of $$$ for a camera then have eye damage.
Re: Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse
#5Now imagine that kind of damage being done to your eyes. It hurts just thinking about it, yet some people don’t seem to really believe the warnings.
I'd argue this is slightly worse because the cameras have higher magnification lenses* vs our naked eye. This might be more akin to looking into a telescope with your eyes. Edit: To elaborate - Higher magnification lenses (depending on the camera lens used of course) Edit 1: - /u/corndoge Suggests that people may take this the wrong way. I mean to say in the amount of physical damage it's worse for camera's because o…
Our naked eye has a lens too.
Re: Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse
#6It's a shame that Lens Rentals had to suffer such material loss, but that report is absolute gold-plated first-hand evidence for my perennial debates with other photographers who insist that they don't need Solar protection for eclipses.
"But I took a landscape shot at midday with the Sun in frame and it didn't melt my sensor". The difference being the length of exposure and the concentrations of energy.
Re: Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse
#7Interesting! My assumption is that this could not happen with a phone camera though, correct? Because then one would think just leaving one's phone face down on the table in sunlight would ruin it.
The sun would have to be dead center middle so it's probably unlikely. The lenses on the fancy cameras definitely make it a far worse problem for them vs our phone cameras though.
An iphone 6 camera only costs 5$ and is easy to replace(with a screw driver and spudger (maybe an igizmo) most hacker news people likely wouldn't have issues.), so it's not the end of the world (source:I repair phones)
Re: Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd argue this is slightly worse because the cameras have higher magnification lenses* vs our naked eye. This might be more akin to looking into a telescope with your eyes. Edit: To elaborate - Higher magnification lenses (depending on the camera lens used of course) Edit 1: - /u/corndoge Suggests that people may take this the wrong way. I mean to say in the amount of physical damage it's worse for camera's because o…
Our naked eye has a lens too.
But it’s not a 600mm tele, so the actual area of burn damage is going to be smaller. You’ll still have a blind spot in the center of your field of view, but not the whole eye. Still, I imagine it’s quite a disability either way.
Re: Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse
#9It's a shame that Lens Rentals had to suffer such material loss, but that report is absolute gold-plated first-hand evidence for my perennial debates with other photographers who insist that they don't need Solar protection for eclipses. "But I took a landscape shot at midday with the Sun in frame and it didn't melt my sensor". The difference being the length of exposure and the concentrations of energy.
> And of the things returned, we were equally impressed with our customer-base, and their guilt and owning up to the damage.
I thought the renters would be paying for it?
Re: Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse
#10It's a shame that Lens Rentals had to suffer such material loss, but that report is absolute gold-plated first-hand evidence for my perennial debates with other photographers who insist that they don't need Solar protection for eclipses. "But I took a landscape shot at midday with the Sun in frame and it didn't melt my sensor". The difference being the length of exposure and the concentrations of energy.
Presumably the rental place isn't planning to just eat the loss. They have the renters' credit card numbers...