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misha

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The second and the third I would have thought normalish, yea. With an SLR you can manage the phenomena. Rangefinders its a bit more hit and miss.

 

The first image looks a bit odd. Specifically wrt the m8 I cant say. Someone might let you know whether shooting another ISO gives the camera more lattitude before it frazzles the sensor and promote artifacts, so that you can rule that out. But it always seems to be the same angle and equidistant from the centre line. More than that, equidistant from dead centre now I look at it.

 

Presumably wide open? Lens or filter induced, people? You will probably start getting "there have been threads on this before" flames:o :D.

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It is internal reflection from your UV/IR filter. Shoot the same scene without the filter and the green blurs will go away. It's an unfortunate anomaly of the filters leica sent.

 

thanks. is this something one should anticipate in certain environments? it happened before, but never in back to back to back situations. always in low-light though.

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Not so much "the filters Leica sent." Any plane filter will do the same, as LCT said, red filter, UVa filter, yellow filter.

 

Also, certain optical designs are more prone to these reflections than others. I think I've seen other threads mentioning the 35/2 ASPH in this regard.

 

In the 70's Pentax went so far as to offer non-plane filters for some of their lenses to avoid this kind of artifact.

 

Nice shots, by the way, Michael! I really like the storefront scene and the play of colors in the father/children picture.

 

--HC

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Not so much "the filters Leica sent." Any plane filter will do the same, as LCT said, red filter, UVa filter, yellow filter.

 

Also, certain optical designs are more prone to these reflections than others. I think I've seen other threads mentioning the 35/2 ASPH in this regard.

 

In the 70's Pentax went so far as to offer non-plane filters for some of their lenses to avoid this kind of artifact.

 

Nice shots, by the way, Michael! I really like the storefront scene and the play of colors in the father/children picture.

 

--HC

 

thanks. those were not (by far) the best photos from that day, just the ones with ghosting. that said, the final final selection will probably be in b/w

here are a few samples

http://images33.fotki.com/v1068/photos/1/112904/5834146/7am-vi.jpg

http://images33.fotki.com/v1117/photos/1/112904/5834146/man_balcony-vi.jpg

http://images31.fotki.com/v1039/photos/1/112904/5834146/trinity-vi.jpg

 

p.s. dont really edit them. channel mixer, levels and curves. thats all. but i should :)

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