[rollei_list] Re: Lens coatings and veiling flare.

  • From: Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:55:56 -0400

I'd like to know of any lens which does not do that in those conditions.
I don't think there is one. Of any camera system.
Me I don't point my lens at the sun to see if I like it or not.


Mark William Rabiner



> From: Sanders McNew <sanders@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 07:52:42 -0400
> To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [rollei_list] Lens coatings and veiling flare.
> 
> I shoot a variety of older Rolleiflexes --
> a 3.5E and a 2.8C getting most of the
> work.  Their weakness, in my use, has
> always been veiling flare when shooting
> a strongly backlit subject, or in other
> conditions where the sun or a bright
> reflection is in the frame.
> 
> Does anyone onlist know when F+H
> or its lens suppliers upgraded the lens
> coatings on the TLRs?  Are later TLR
> models more effective at suppressing
> veiling flare in these conditions?  Do
> I need to ask Austin for his GX to tame
> this beast?
> 
> Sanders
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