Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/07

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Shadow boxing
From: Douglas Herr <doug@nualumni.com>
Date: 7 Aug 2000 14:02:49 -0700

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
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