Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]PS: I just checked - you can reproduce it any time, even with a legendary lens like the Hasselblad SWC's Biogon 4.5/38, when the sun is just a little above the picture. Though the picture does not show the sun itself, the rays hit the lens and produce the flare. The wides and super wides, specially the ultra high speed lenses within this group, are constructed to "fetch" all possible light and "bring" it into the far out corners of the picture. So, you either use the flare as a construction element in your picture or you make your wife, friend, or the cat shade the lens from half a meter away. If there is no cat, even an umbrella might help. Alf - ----------------------------------------------------------------- At 09:00 28.02.1998 -0000, Boreham 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.