Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/08

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Subject: Re: Clarification of my recent message "window backlighting scene"
From: bholmes@frii.com (Ben Holmes)
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 15:14:59 -0700 (MST)
 
>I think that the answer was serious.  If the light shapes were "decagonal"
>or "nonagonal", this would indicate that the problem was caused by lens
>flare.  A 9 bladed aperture in your lens would create a "nonagonal" (is this
>the right word?) shape in extreme lens flare situations.
>
>Dan C.
>
>
Thank you, Dan. Yes the word is nonagonal - as in a nonagon: a polygon with
nine sides. And my parents thought my 4 years at UCLA were nothing but
drinking beer. My thoughts were that the new 90/2.8-M Elmar has 9 blades,
but I didn't save the original post so I wasn't sure which lens was causing
the problem.

Evidently I have a reputation for being rude or something. See if I bother
to whip out my latin again to help some hothead.

ben