Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]try it again without the filter. tom At 09:00 AM 2/28/98 -0000, you wrote: >I took some pictures recently where significant flare has occurred. In some >pictures the flare is the iris image, in others it is overall loss of >contrast, almost a white out in the worst case with the sun very near the >edge of the image. All pics were contre- jour but the iris image ones were >nowhere straight at the sun and have surprised and disappointed me. >Without wanting to stir up the protective filter argument again I admit I >was using a leica uv filter and I also had the hood on. I fully accept that >the flare would probably been less without the filter. However my >experience is all based on using many different lenses(many makes) nearly >always with a filter, and it is comparison with this experience which has >surprised me. >Any comments or similiar experiences? > > ================================== Thomas Kachadurian http://freeway.net/~kach