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Re: [OM] Backlight flare

Subject: Re: [OM] Backlight flare
From: "Ulf Westerberg" <ulf.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 18:58:10 +0200

I wrote:

>>I agree with you totally. It took a while for me to make friends with my
>>SC-coated, requires great imagination to hide the sun behind branches etc.
>>Until I routinely began to use my hand to shade (camera on tripod) when
the
>>sun was close to the frame, I used to go nuts. Throw the shade away, it's
>>totally useless, far to small.
>
>
Then Ken Norton wrote:
>
>Strange.  I have to do the same with my MC 24mm lens too.  Could it be that
>very wide angle lenses and back lit scenes are just prone to flair??????
>
>Nah!  Couldn't be...
>

Then why is the wider the better?!?! At least when it comes to my Zuiko
16/3.5 fish-eye. Very little ghosting and flare, even with a low sun in the
frame.

Now unfortunately som real blasphemy: Look up the results of a Nikon 20/2.8.
Flare resistance is so good it is almost unbelivable. Absolutely no
ghosting.
Add some Zeiss wide-angles for Hasselblad (forgotten which) and you'll know
that flare resistance wide-angles can be made.

Ulf Westerberg


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