Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mon, 07 August 2000, "B. D. Colen" wrote: > > Well, JD, the numbers make sense...but....Why do I keep thinking that being > told you should want flare in a lens because it's a "good think" is a bit > like being told that you want a dishwasher that leaks because then you can > use the same water to wash the dishes and the kitchen floor? :-) > B. D. > IMHO flare is a Bad Thing for a number of reasons: for example, when the flare isn't a pure "white", the portion of light exposing the shadow areas is predominately flare, giving me a color cast in the shadows. Assuming the flare is evenly distributed across the image area, the mid-tones and highlights recieve proportionally less of the color cast so a color correction applied across the entire image to get rid of the color cast in the shadows would introduce a color cast into the mid-tones and highlights. I can fix this with Photoshop but it's MUCH easier to work from a chrome exposed with a lens that doesn't cause so much flare. I see the difference in my N**** vs R chromes. I'll take a high-contrast lens any day! Doug Herr Sacramento http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt - -------------------------------------------------- Visit the Northwestern Alumni Association portal page at http://www.nualumni.com to get free web-based e-mail and many other exciting features.