bjd said:
A friend has now got his Irix copy and posted the following picture. He likes to shoot into the Sun and has terrible problems with Lens Flare if he does that, and has found no way to get rid of it while shooting.
Anyone else have the same problems?
Cheers Brian
Looking at how much the image shown has been forced in processing I'd expect this, or a variation, with almost any complex WA lens.
I found the Canon 15mm FE showed this far less than many lenses - of course, you'll need to 'correct' the distortion and ideally have a lot of MP to start with (lessens the impact of the geometry change) The newer 8-15 is also good with flare, but if you want to process images that look like this, it's going to be a problem with almost any lens
Update - Looked through the archives and found some dual shot experiments (TS-E17) with the sun in shot (not the centre, but away from the edge). Using my hand as a sunshade to get a second shot without the flare, and blending the two images. Takes a bit of care in editing (in PS with masked layers) to get it smooth. Rarely a satisfactory solution, not because of the flare, but the resultant lighting of the rest of the shot (I don't get much call for silhouettes...)