filter reflection - a rare cautionary

[lacey_smith4]

ok, on the fiilter/no filter query (I DO use protective filters).

 

This is perhaps the ONLY instance (but two negatives) in which I have

been convinced of an unequivocal filter effect. I have had flare (non-

image forming light junk) that I was suspicious of, but this is

different. It is printed/displayed so you can see the effect,not the

best print (otherwise, it is a good pict). Yes, the effect is on the

negative.

 

For reference, the item to note is the mirrored reflection of the

bright upper window panes, across the beneath-window area AND THE

STATUE (which excludes shadows form the windows to the side). Note

also that is is, relatively, in focus, not blurred. And, though I

can't necessarily prove it by this print, it is symmetric about the

middle of the negative, and a little specific tree pattern is visible

both in the upper bright window and the reflection.

 

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Now, any internal lens or camera relections would not be in focus and

would not be symmetric (except by extraorindary rare alignment of the

stars, statistically impossible). A second negative shot tangentially

to the next window (off screen to the right) had the same effect --

seems to require a very bright source, in appr the same location of

the frame. SO, it must be a reflection off the front lens element,

onto the filter, reimaged as if from a semi-silvered mirror.

 

It must also be VERY lens/filter/circumstance combo specific. This

was pre-asph 35 summircon, B&W filter (not MRC). The different shape

of the asph, for instance, almost certainly would not show this

effect. I have shot a lot of "tests" to compare flare amongst lenses,

but this is most unusual.

[lacey_smith4]

sorry

 

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[lacey_smith4]

again

[fotografz]

Then again flare can be used to good effect on occassion...

 

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[skeeter]

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