Today, I discovered that the reason the phone I've had for a year takes such terrible and cloudy pictures is because I never took the plastic coating off the lens. FML
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fishyrael 29
Yeah haha I did feel pretty silly. My phone is one of those old ones that you flip open and it has a keyboard, so to my memory the inner screen didn't have a protector. The one over the camera was very flush to the lens so it didn't bubble or anything and looked perfectly normal, I thought it was just a shit camera since it was an old model of phone. I wouldn't have found it if my nail hadn't caught the corner when I was putting it in my pocket and pulled it up some. The worst part was as #3 said, since it was actually my birthday party and my boyfriend and all my family were there to witness the look of stunned realization on my face, followed by my announcement that I was, in fact, an idiot. Oh well, at least I have a decent camera now!
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barnyboy 13
I find that there's nothing more satisfying than pulling the plastic off the glass for the first time! YDI For not doing that immediately OP haha.
crissalove 22
You didn't once think to clean the lense and realize there was plastic on it?
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Comments (67)
ash268 18
Did the same thing. For a good year. Silly me.
may14th 26
this was me when I got my first iPhone
Sakuraashita 15
Umm... Wow... Ok, yeah, just wow.
R2Y2 22
YDI, seriously how do you not notice a piece of film over the camera youve been taking pictures with?
WhatsYOURname6 25
Thank god I read this! I was wondering why my front camera had gotten so bad!
mike9012345 9
That's ok my parents had a computer monitor for a year and a half with on it and the even when out and bought a different one because of it and they were frustrated when it to was blurry. You should have seen the look on there faces when I pulled the lens covers off both monitors.
ecstasy22 12
Happy late realisation OP
nika_rose_ 5
Well, dang. You never...took it off? How is that humanly possible?
lars4 10
I did the same thing, but it only took like a week not a full 2 years before I noticed.
S0ulBaby 6
Could of been worse, the camera could have actually just been a piece of shit.