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    Strange camera smear – cold weather?

    Posted by John Rosson on February 28, 2010 at 2:54 pm

    Folks,

    Am going to try to attach two pictures here.

    Yesterday was shooting a lacrosse game in real cold weather — (below freezing — high wind).
    In the third quarter an odd black smear suddenly obscured the lens (see ‘3rd Q.png’).

    I thought at first something physical was in front of the lens but that was not the case.

    The second picture (‘HAND.png) shows my hand passing in front of the lens — and the tornado-shaped smear would partially go away, and then return once my hand was removed from in front of the lens.

    It shut me down of course — but when I got back in-house, the smear was gone, leading me to think it was the cold.

    Anybody ever see anything like this?

    Thank you,
    JR

    John Cummings replied 16 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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