An amateur photographer who’s Canon 17-85mm EFS lens kicked the bucket decided to disassemble it piece by piece, and he snapped photos of the whole ordeal.

Eerily, it was his aperture function that quit, and it quit right after snapping a photo of an art display featuring SEVERAL DOZEN APERTURE DEVICES. If that doesn’t strike you as quite the co-ink-ee-dink, it’s tough to say what will.

Here’s that lens’ final photo:

And here’s what the 17-85mm looks like fully disassembled:

While you won’t learn much about how this fascinating array of parts actually works together, if you want to see more interesting photos like this then check out the rest of his post on the Fred Miranda forums, where he’ll show you many more detailed shots, including the lens’ Image Stabilization system up close.

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