Originally posted by tm64 Today i talked to a nuklear Professor in my german high school and he confirmed if the lens shadders and u breath in the dust there is a high risk of get cancer spezial if u are in young age.
He also told me there are free apps in Android where everyone can detect if the lens is radioaktiv it works with the camera as detector.
The couple of times I’ve dropped lenses such that they broke, they have generally not shattered into dust that would be a breathing hazard. The glass, even though broken, was restrained by the body of the lens and the small amounts of dust were generally not airborne and were easy to pick up with a damp cloth.
I’d really like to know how an app is going to work as a radiation detector.
When you say the camera is the detector, I assume you mean the Android device camera, not the one the lens is on...
One reason I’m curious is that in my (now several year-old) experiences with Android, the diversity of camera suppliers made even an optical light meter challenging to develop across all Android devices, so I’d like to know how that was solved for radiation.
-Eric