steve garza
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I've run into the problem 2 times (under admittedly difficult lighting), once w/ hood and wonder if anyone has experienced this. Enquiring minds want to know.
Any Flare issues w/ 35 'lux asph....
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spysmart
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steve garza
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YES, exactly. Although mine are not quite that noticeable. And one did occur at a smaller aperture w/ the hood.
x-ray
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My old 1st version was terrible in that regard but my CV Nokton has not been an issue with flare. I've intentionally tried to make it flare wide open and have been unable to get flare other than a small fuzzy ball around light sources. I tried a night shot a couple of weeks ago at f1.2 iso 800 at 1/15 second shooting direct into a 1000 watt halogen light and had no flare.
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peter_n
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No problems yet. Maybe just the situations I've been in haven't been flare-inducing. OTOH the ASPH is supposed to be more or less flare-free.
Matthew Runkel
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steve garza
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I'm a little peeved about it. The reason I chose the asph was for it's superior performance. Perhaps I'm taxing it with difficult situations.
Matthew Runkel
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Shooting a lighthouse in the dark is a very extreme test for any lens, I would expect. In the case of my shot, there is a 2.5 million candle power light source in the frame and the rest of the scene is completely black. In any "normal" shooting situation for this lens--including low-light uses--this flare pattern would be completely drowned out.
Even the best multicoating will not prevent some tiny amount of reflection off of internal elements.
Even the best multicoating will not prevent some tiny amount of reflection off of internal elements.
richard_l
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Shoot into a strong enough light source with any lens and you're almost guaranteed to get flare. It's more a matter of physics than of lens design.
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jaapv
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I hardly dare ask: Filter??
Matthew Runkel
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Not in my case.jaapv said:
jaapv
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Not always! This one, I've posted before: A digital P&S😉 (Leica Digilux2), zoom-lens.straight into the sun...(The Sundogs are not flare in the lens, but in the upper atmosphere)richard_l said:
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steve garza
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Magus,
Good points. I have no intention of giving the lens up.....I'll just have to live with it.....poor me!!!
Good points. I have no intention of giving the lens up.....I'll just have to live with it.....poor me!!!
Alec
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Steve, should you wish to swap your dubious Lux 35 Asph against my flare-free Nokton 35/1.2 please drop me a PM 😉steve garza said:
x-ray
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Thought you might find these interesting. The first two are near full frame from my Nokton at f 1.2 and the third is a crop from the second frame. The first shot was focused on the train front and the second was prefocused for the guy in the front. The lights in the train shot were atleast 1000 watt halogens and might have been more. Not much flare but just a little.
The flare in your asph looks very much like the flare in my old pre asph summilux. The old v1 had terrible flare and rendered a number of shots totally unusable.
These were shot specifically to see the flare under night conditions and high intensity light sources in the shot. The film was HP5 pushed to 800 in Acufine.
The flare in your asph looks very much like the flare in my old pre asph summilux. The old v1 had terrible flare and rendered a number of shots totally unusable.
These were shot specifically to see the flare under night conditions and high intensity light sources in the shot. The film was HP5 pushed to 800 in Acufine.
steve garza
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Yesss.....Alec
Yesss.....Alec
I'll drop it off on my to Bellvue!!!😛
Yesss.....Alec
Alec said:
I'll drop it off on my to Bellvue!!!😛
Xmas
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Looks like a cloaking failure on Clingon warbirds to me, could not be a Leitz problem, Captain, a bracket of photon torpedos should confirm...
If when you design the lens you dont consider flare as a design constraint then it may flare.
The Zeiss sonnars from pre WWII were designed for minimal flare the Summar etc, were more exposed... even Putts sort of accepts this, I still use Leitz lens, I have a pre asp lux 35mm ...
Noel
Really like the sun dogs, magic pic...
If when you design the lens you dont consider flare as a design constraint then it may flare.
The Zeiss sonnars from pre WWII were designed for minimal flare the Summar etc, were more exposed... even Putts sort of accepts this, I still use Leitz lens, I have a pre asp lux 35mm ...
Noel
Really like the sun dogs, magic pic...
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