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if you get smoke on your laser lens will it somehow damage it? and will it damage it if theres old smoke in the room or does the smoke have to hit the lens like right after it comes off a burning object?
Close. Smoke plus lens equals very bad.
I've damaged nice lenses before, by burning too closely.
If its water based fog of some kind, I'm sure the "smoke" won't damage any lens. Though if burnt contaminants "land" on your lens, your lens can easily be damaged by trying to clean the bits off. If the bits were still "burning", a loss of AR coating may result.
^ cannabis smoke not only make your lenses dirty, also make your lasers acts "strange" .....
Well, seriously, any smoke that contain oily substances "evaporated" in the burning process, can cause problems to optics, cause with the time, the oily part tend to condensate on any surface, including lenses, and being oily, it's less easy to clean away than just dust.
Cause the most part of the cannabinoids are resinous and oil based compounds, then yes, it can cause problems similar to the ones from tobacco smoke ..... maybe they need more time for accumulate, cause the concentration is less than the tar in the tobacco smoke, but still can dirt badly the lenses, with enough time.