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Smudge on main camera lens?



Smudge on main camera lens?

by deagz

46 Comments

  1. TheCarrier89

    Yeah I’m watching the game on my phone and I kept wiping my screen hoping it would go away lol.

  2. postmodern_lasagna

    Was very scared my new tv was deficient. Glad I’m not the only one

  3. Adriansshawl

    We don’t have any words and we know you don’t want to hear them.

    We understand your anger, your frustration, your sadness. Everything you’re feeling—we get it.

    -the camera guy, probably

  4. It’s the same on the ESPN feed as well. Driving me nuts!

  5. Groversnose

    At first I thought maybe my prayers were being answered and my plasma from 2012 was on the fritz. Nope! Just a shmear.

  6. jackhammburgerhelper

    Fuckin hell. Thought my TV was fucked for a minute there

  7. Mr_Charley

    Thought my tablet’s screen was breaking! Glad not just me

  8. I just placed a warranty claim in with Costco while cursing my horrible luck with tvs

  9. As someone working in the broadcasting world, mostly in sports. The smudge is probably on the inner part of the camera. So there isn’t really a way to fix it quickly as the cameras are heavy af and it takes more than 20 minutes to get to actual camera. Because you have to turn off the camera from the broadcasting truck, wait for the lens to be cool enough to be taken off, then take the lens off, putting the lens down somewhere safe which is probably not right next to the camera depending on locations, have someone ready with the lens wipe, then get to the camera body to clean it. Then you have to reassemble the camera and test it to even see if that fixes the problem. That fix alone would take 30 minutes and that’s if it even works! But also that looks more than a smudge to me. It looks like the lens was scratched or burned with something to make those markings but I can’t be 100% sure.

    So you’ll have to deal with it for this game and hopefully it’s fixed for the next time they use the camera. Also you can’t use the other cameras as they all probably have different zoom capacity and that are used for replay and other things that the director/producer/insert any person that is important on a show behind the scenes would not be willing to give up so that a camera can be game cam.

  10. Thought it was my TV at first until they changed camera angles and then it disappeared. Then I realized it’s definitely the camera.

  11. ccm20012000

    Jeez though my new cell had screen burn 🔥

  12. Oasystole

    You can’t just let me enjoy the landslide victory, can you?

  13. jokeswagon

    Noticed it right away. Pretty stinkin bush league. I knew it wasn’t my tv simply by changing it to anything else. Easy check. How did so many people think it was their tv?

  14. wouldjalookatit

    LOOOL I didn’t even notice it until I saw this!

  15. Evening_Extreme_1681

    Oh thank God. I just had my phone screen replaced and was about to tear into the repair place.

  16. BeerLeagueSnipes

    I thought something was wrong with my tv!

  17. dragonfruitwarrior

    Oh my god I was losing my mind, I wiped my phone screen like three times 😭😭

  18. gabriel197600

    I noticed that too..thought my OLED had burn in!

  19. BackTo1975

    Freaked me out for a minute, too. Thought it was something going on with my projector.

  20. ImporterExporter79

    Hahaha I thought it was my TV…thought it was going to die. I started shopping for an upgrade

  21. StitchAndRollCrits

    This would make me turn off a game… Or start cleaning to distract myself

  22. I literally have been googling Samsung warranty information god dammit

  23. musebrews

    I don’t know how the camera guy can look through it and not notice for a fucking hour – fired

  24. It’s Gordon Lunas… some people say he looked like a smudge on a lens

  25. Canadia86

    I’ve noticed this a lot lately. Not just TSN or the Leafs, either

  26. izzythebear16

    I thought this was my TV at first last night

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