hey cohost uhhhhh will that little orangey brown spot do literally anything bad to the image or am i just nervous over nothing? got a camera in the mail and noticed this
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that would probably involve disassembling the camera in a way i am not incredibly confident i can undo.... i will probably try. boyfriend said to ask the seller for a partial refund, but i am very bad at doing stuff like that, so my current plan is to either suck it up or see how i feel about it after i sleep
I don't think it'll be visible in any images, but I think anything on the lens can affect image quality, like it'll be less sharp than it should be. Probably only a tiny amount less.
So, basically, in most cases, physical damage to lens elements that stops short of total destruction, results in a reduction in contrast/sharpness, and possibly some weird flaring artifacts when the light catches it.
If it's fungus, it could spread. I think folks just stick it in the sun for a while to kill it? I'm not sure, it's not an issue I've dealt with personally.
(The part that's not "most cases" is when you have a lens design and aperture setting and focal distance such that depth of field gets right up to the lens itself, e.g., if you have a very wide angle lens and you're stopping down super far and also focusing on something relatively close, then sometimes defects on the lens will become much more visible in the final image.)