Weeks After Eclipse, People Are Noticing 1 Household Item That’s Changed Forever

By Kimberly Smith
September 5, 2017 at 9:23am

The excitement that surrounded the August solar eclipse may seem like a distant memory now, but some people have noticed the phenomenon changed one thing in their household.

That thing would be their cameras.

LensRentals, a Tennessee-based camera rental shop, rented out a number of cameras and lenses before the event and warned customers to protect their cameras by using solar filters. Naturally, some of those customers ignored the warnings.

The company posted a series of photos to its blog about about the various ways cameras were damaged by the eclipse. Writer Zach Sutton noted that the most common problem customers encountered with cameras used during the eclipse was melted sensors and shutters.

Mirror damage was another problem that resulted from exposure to the sun’s rays. Additionally, the lens irises of some cameras were also destroyed by the heat and and brightness of the eclipse. The company also said that the neutral density filter system in one camera rented suffered damage due to the eclipse.

There were plenty of warnings to protect eyes and cameras before the event, Sutton said.

There were also many stories, reports and videos on how to properly view the eclipse.

The camera store “Everything Photography” even posted a video to YouTube about how to damage cameras hoping to warn people about just how dangerous the sun actually is.

That’s some serious damage.

“But despite our warnings, we still expected gear to come back damaged and destroyed,” Sutton wrote.

Sutton added that the post wasn’t meant to criticize customers but to serve as a warning for future eclipses. The next solar eclipse scheduled to cross the United States is in 2024.

“Things happen, and that’s why we have a repair department. And furthermore, we found this to be far more exciting than we were disappointed,” Sutton wrote, adding that the company was impressed with just how few damaged pieces were returned to them.

It is good to know that most people took the warnings seriously.

It is also astonishing to realize that our sun can do so much damage.

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