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Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 03/01/2009: flare, what flare?

Subject: Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 03/01/2009: flare, what flare?
From: "Joel Wilcox" <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 13:50:09 -0600
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Nathan <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When I woke up yesterday morning and looked out the window, I saw
> white. Not much, but nice to finally have some reward for enduring
> sub-freezing temperatures since arriving in Poland before Christmas.
> I went for my usual morning walk along the river:
>
> http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/4253606_netUM#448363535_mpHEh-O-LB
>
> This is the kind of image where one is usually cautioned against
> flare. But with a new Leica M lens, I spit on flare.

That's a fine image, Nathan.  Under the circumstances in which I have
used the sun to create a diffraction star, I never get flare.  In my
experience, the circumstances seem to me to be mutually exclusive (but
I could be wrong).  I get flare when the entire sun is in the image,
especially when the sun is the main subject of the image.  I posted
this image recently:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/99378213@N00/3156333461/

This circumstance should produce no flare IMO, but there is a bit just
left of center.  I consider this the biggest disappointment in the
otherwise fine DZ 50-200.

I have wondered if there is anything I can do to reduce flare with
this lens.  For example, I tend not to focus on the sun itself but
ahead of it, using DOF to keep everything in focus.  I also tend to
use one of the "better" stops like f8 or f11, so I don't know if
opening or stopping down would increase or decrease the effect.

Joel W.
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