# Can't take a photo of my Drivers License on my Phone, is this an actual feature?

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**Created:** [April 4, 2021, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-take-a-photo-of-my-drivers-license-on-my-phone-is-this-an-actual-feature/939374 "2021-04-04T07:29:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-take-a-photo-of-my-drivers-license-on-my-phone-is-this-an-actual-feature/939374/35 "2021-04-07T11:50:28Z")

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I was thinking Basilisk.

Joking aside, I have actually encountered a situation where an object could not be photographed, and it was not by design - I actually had a thread about it (12 years ago): [Cell phone camera crashes entire phone, but only when photographing certain things](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-camera-crashes-entire-phone-but-only-when-photographing-certain-things/532753)

At the time, I faintly hoped I had discovered a real-life Langford Basilisk (an image that by its nature causes the thing looking at it to crash). I think in the end, I concluded that it was just because certain image subjects didn’t compress well, and there was a problem writing larger files on a specific combination of hardware I happened to have.

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