[LRflex] Re: Query: 35mm f2.8

OK Doug.  I can see your point.  Got to get out the can of black flocking 
and spray the heck out of the mirror box  :-)

Aram


>From: "telyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <telyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [LRflex] Re: Query: 35mm f2.8
>Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:28:55 -0400
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> > Not sure I buy his mirror box flare hypothesis=2E
> > If the stray sight is hitting the mirror box=20
> > is must be coming from somewhere - the lens perhap=3F
>
>I agree it's a hypothesis=2E
>
>I see it most often (with other lenses, too) when the sun is just outside
>the picture area;  since the image circle the lens is projecting into the
>mirror chamber is larger than the picture captured (either by film or by a=
>
>sensor) the image of the sun - within the image circle but outside the
>picture area - is on some surface of the mirror box=2E
>
>The ideal mirror box would have perfect black-body surfaces from which no
>light would be reflected; the oposite extreme would be white or reflective=
>
>surfaces which would send the light from the image of the sun ricocheting
>all over the mirror box=2E  The reality of course is somewhere in between,=
>  as
>black and non-reflective as possible (subject to marketing and cost
>cosntraints)=2E  My guess is that some of the light from the sun's image
>bounces around enough that it's eventually reflected toward the film where=
>
>it looks like flare=2E
>
>Doug Herr
>Birdman of Sacramento
>http://www=2Ewildlightphoto=2Ecom
>
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