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Re: [OM] Why you should never point your 250/2.0 into the sun

Subject: Re: [OM] Why you should never point your 250/2.0 into the sun
From: Dawid Loubser <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:22:08 +0200
No, I seriously doubt if any damage was done, was not a lot of smoke :-)

On 23 Dec 2009, at 3:17 PM, Chris Barker wrote:

> Bloomin heck!
>
> I hope that the smoke didn't damage the lens.
>
> Chris
>
> On 23 Dec 2009, at 12:09, Dawid Loubser wrote:
>
>> WTF!? The rear lens cap was being set on fire! I quickly twist the
>> rapidly melting
>> rear cap off the lens and threw it to the ground. In literally 20
>> seconds or so, this
>> lens focused the sun's rays to such intensity to melt through a
>> plastic rear cap.

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