That is a symptom of lens flair, and it's caused by reflections within
the lens that design and coatings haven't been able to completely
eliminate. The fact that it's six sided means that your lens has a six
bladed aperture. To not have this type of flair, don't shoot into
bright light sources. Sorry not the advice you were looking for. The
other thing you can do with this type of lens flair is make it part of
your composition and just live with it. However on a good note you have
found one of the limits of your lens.
On 9/30/2016 2:54 PM, Eric Weir wrote:
I’ve been following the cross country team of the high school in the community
in which I worked the last few years before retiring. I frequently find myself
having to shoot into the sun. When I do I get bright spot of varying size
shaped like the focus indicator in the viewfinder.
Why does this happen? Can it be avoided?
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