2012-02-19

February 19th, 2012 9:59pm

Soon after I purchased a 200mm f/2.8 lens last year, it got a really large white spec on one of the optical elements inside. This spec was quite a bit larger than any other piece of fluff in any other lens I own. It was quite disturbing but did not affect the beautiful pictures that this lens took. Last week, I observed to my horror a dust mite crawling on this very same optical surface. It walked directly towards the spec, ate it, then walked out of site. I watched it happen in amazement. … I hope I can train these suckers so that I can sell my new internal lens cleaning technology.

• photography
• biology
• dust mite
• lens