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Old 04-14-2014, 04:48 PM
julianburke julianburke is offline
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DOT Lens

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What is a D.O.T Lens please ?
DOT stands for "Department of Transportation". On vehicles all tail light lenses and other lights have to pass a DOT spec. Apparently RCA and perhaps other camera manufacturers were using automobile lenses which makes sense as they were commercially available and to make a special red lens would cost much more to make than just buying a off the shelf lamp lens.
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