On Aug 17, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: > On Aug 17, 2012, at 4:08, Larry Colen wrote: > >> After the megatones gig, I spent some time wandering around Murphy Street >> with my camera. The 16-50 seems to have some real issues with glare when >> shooting into lights. >> >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/7800674466/in/set-72157631108944390 >> > > Are you sure that lens is clean and dry inside and out? I've never had that > much trouble with glare.
It seems to be. > > You don't have a filter in front of that lens or anything, do you? That > might be the problem, if you do. After I got a small scratch on the edge of the front element, when a 77mm UV filter came with the Tokina, I put it on the 16-50. I just did a quick test. It doesn't seem much worse with the UV filter, and it only seems to happen when there is a very bright light source right next to a very dark subject. > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - [email protected] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
