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[[caption-width-right:350:'''Candace:''' Ooo, those boys are so busted! MOM! MOM! Look at this...\\
'''Linda:''' ...why are you showing me a picture of your thumb, dear?]]

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'''Linda:''' ...why are you showing me a picture of your thumb, dear?]]dear?]]-]
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** In one episode, Irving manages to do this with an ''imaginary'' camera. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Yeah...]]

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** In one "Atlantis", Irving takes photos of Atlantis on an imaginary camera after an eel steals his real camera. At the end of the episode, Irving manages to do this with an ''imaginary'' camera. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Yeah...]]he realises he [[RuleOfFunny somehow]] had his thumb in front of the imaginary lens, and all he remembers of Atlantis [[AllForNothing is his thumb]].
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* ''Series/FamilyMatters'': In "The Quilt", Eddie finds an old camera and uses it to take pictures at the Winslow family's GarageSale. The first one came out all black because Eddie forgot to take the lens cap off.
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* ''Webcomic/TheWotch'': Ivan the SchoolNewspaperNewshound is first starts trying to uncover the secrets behind the magical goings on around Tandy Gardens High School when he stumbles onto Anne having accidentally turned herself into a CatFolk. He goes and grabs his camera but despite finding her accidentally spreading the curse to others and attempting to take a photo [[https://www.thewotch.com/?comic=abra-cat-dabra-8 he forgets to remove his lens cap in this strip]]. Later when a demon that can [[ForcedTransformation transform mortals]] goes on a rampage he [[https://www.thewotch.com/?comic=slumber-party-15 remembers to remove the cap]]
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Not related to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_Obscura Camera Obscura]], from which this trope [[TropeNamer derives its name.]]

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Not related to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_Obscura Camera Obscura]], org/wiki/Camera_obscura camera obscura]], from which this trope [[TropeNamer derives its name.]]
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** Annoyingly, she could still have taken that picture. With the lens cap on, there would have been no light - meaning no exposure. Being that the while movie is 40's retro technology, that was probably a manual camera. If she didn't advance the film, she could have taken the cap off and shot that frame again.

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** Annoyingly, she could still have taken that picture. With the lens cap on, there would have been no light - meaning no exposure. Being that the while whole movie is 40's retro technology, that was probably a manual camera. If she didn't advance the film, she could have taken the cap off and shot that frame again.



* In the original ''Literature/CheaperByTheDozen'' book, the father of said dozen children wants the removal of his children's and his own tonsils filmed. Since he wants to direct the filming of his own tonsil removal, he stays conscious during the procedure, and suffers great pain because of this. The pain turned out to be all for naught when the cameraman revels he accidentally left the lens cap on.

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* In the original ''Literature/CheaperByTheDozen'' book, the father of said dozen children wants the removal of his children's and his own tonsils filmed. Since he wants to direct the filming of his own tonsil removal, he stays conscious during the procedure, and suffers great pain because of this. The pain turned out to be all for naught when the cameraman revels reveals he accidentally left the lens cap on.



---> [[spoiler: Asriel]]: Okay, [[spoiler:[[HelloInsertNameHere (Player Name)]]]], are you ready? Do your creepy face! AHHHHH!! Hee hee hee! Oh! Wait! I had the lens cap on... What!? You're not gonna do it again...? Come on, quit tricking me! Haha!

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--->[[spoiler: Asriel]]: Howdy, [[spoiler:(Player Name)]]! Smile for the camera! Ha, this time I got YOU! I left the cap on... ON PURPOSE! Now you're smiling for noooo reason! Hee hee hee.

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---> [[spoiler: Asriel]]: --> '''[[spoiler: Asriel]]:''' Okay, [[spoiler:[[HelloInsertNameHere (Player Name)]]]], are you ready? Do your creepy face! AHHHHH!! Hee hee hee! Oh! Wait! I had the lens cap on... What!? You're not gonna do it again...? Come on, quit tricking me! Haha!

--->In -->In the next tape...

--->[[spoiler: Asriel]]: -->'''[[spoiler: Asriel]]:''' Howdy, [[spoiler:(Player Name)]]! Smile for the camera! Ha, this time I got YOU! I left the cap on... ON PURPOSE! Now you're smiling for noooo reason! Hee hee hee.
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* One brand of cameras produced a series of advertisements in which a cartoon elephant screwed up his photographs in different ways, because his camera didn't have the easy-to-use features of the one being advertised. One such advertisement had him waste a whole film because he'd left the lens cap on.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': In the episode "Magic Enemy #1" Rotwood manages to trick Jake into transforming into his dragon self in front of a camcorder and gloats at his success--until Spud points out that he [[EpicFail forgot to remove the lens cap.]] Cue BigNO.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': In the episode "Magic "[[Recap/AmericanDragonJakeLongS02E25MagicEnemyNumber1 Magic Enemy #1" #1]]" Rotwood manages to trick Jake into transforming into his dragon self in front of a camcorder and gloats at his success--until Spud points out that he [[EpicFail forgot to remove the lens cap.]] Cue BigNO.
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* ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner'': Coyote uses a [[ShoePhone gun disguised as a camera]], only for it to literally backfire because he left the lens cap on.

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* ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner'': ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner'': Coyote uses a [[ShoePhone gun disguised as a camera]], only for it to literally backfire because he left the lens cap on.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'': In "Stratosphere", Aerrow passes over the unseen Far Side and takes some photos. One is a selfie, one is the reflection of the camera flash in the window, and one has his finger blocking the photo.
-->'''Aerrow:''' ''[sheepish]'' Guess I'm a lousy photographer.
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*''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': In the episode "Magic Enemy #1" Rotwood manages to trick Jake into transforming into his dragon self in front of a camcorder and gloats at his success--until Spud points out that he [[EpicFail forgot to remove the lens cap.]] Cue BigNO.
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For something that obscures a different kind of "camera", see InterfaceScrew or EatTheCamera.

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