R. Monaghan's page is very nice, but that one about coatings is quite bad IMNSHO.
An easy test will show that various MC and SC have much different effects... put a filter on your lens. 1) non-coated filter - BAAAD unless shooting without black coal in black tunnel... 2) single coated filter - better, but still the lightsource forms a image of reflection of itself on the film 3) MCs - the reflection of the lightsource is much much fainter, but differs from manufacturer - the SMC filters are somewhat better in this regard than e.g. Hoya HMC. Of course the other things like lens design, baffling, especially blackening of the edge of elements (!) and aperture design (blackening, matte) have a major play in flare too, but discounting multicoating is quite a crap. It's easy to distuingish reflections from bad or best multicoating with overall flare level from bad baffling. Speaking from experience with several same design lenses that differed _only_ in their coatings, which made a lot of difference. Frantisek - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
