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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 6:02 am    Post subject: Sensor Flare Reply with quote

Hi!

I think this photo shows a pretty good example of sensor flare. Look below the car's bumper, right of center. I blurred out the license plate, otherwise the photo has no postprocessing other than the obligatory resize:


Olympus OM-D E-M5 // Olympus OM 100 2.8 // ISO 400 f8 1/125s

Cheers!


PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like lens flare to me -- I see multiple lens elements -- from sun reflection off bumper.

Interesting photo for reflections!


PostPosted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 8:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi!

Here's an enlargement of the flare. No post-processing other than cropping the flare out of the larger picture above, converting from raw to jpeg, and resizing for this web site:



Note the rectangular shape of at least two parts of the flare. The lens aperture is hexagonal, while both the rear baffle of the lens and the sensor are rectangular. What does this mean?

Cheers!


PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 11:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

visualopsins wrote:
Looks like lens flare to me -- I see multiple lens elements -- from sun reflection off bumper.

Interesting photo for reflections!


I totally agree that would explain the square flare.

Flare isn't always the aperture shape. In my old GAF cine camera which had a diamond shape aperture I still got round flare in certain circumstances


PostPosted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 2:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

At times, flares can be good, but this & 70s disco trousers, isn't one of them.