I understand your concern. But I've never experienced the kind of prismatic flare you showed on those examples with any Pentax lens, prime or zoom. I can't offer any explanation. Paul On Jun 16, 2006, at 6:18 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
> Shooting directly into the sun with every SMC lens I've ever used has > never > been an issue, nor have i experienced such flare as in "awfulflare.jpg" > with primes in similar situations. Maybe the 16-45 needs a better > hood or > I've just encountered its nemesis. In any case, it's just an example > of a > situation in which the flare was unexpected and totally unacceptable. > It's > unimportant to me if it's a tendency for all zooms to do that - it's > not a > "feature" I care for ;-)) > > Shel > > > >> [Original Message] >> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Here's a DA 16-45 shot that was taken directly into the full summer >> sun. > I believe I've shown it here before. It appears to be totally free of > any > obvious flare. I'm not wild about the picture, due to the exaggeration > of > the woman's shape and the rim light on her hair, but it serves to > illustrate the flare resistance of the lens: >> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4570412&size=lg >> Paul > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
