> On Sep 30, 2016, at 3:10 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@mac.com> wrote: > > The bright spot should be shaped like the aperture. It's lens flare, caused > by light reflecting off internal parts of the lens. Use as long a lens hood > as you can without vignetting to minimize. Shooting from under an umbrella > held to "flag" the sun also helps. Finally, the best lenses with excellent > coatings offer more flare resistance than cheaper lenses. Most Pentax lenses > have excellent coating. > > > On Sep 30, 2016, at 3:14 PM, P.J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
Thanks to both of you. The lens is the smc da 4-5.6 50-200 ed wr—I think you recommended to me, Paul. I had a hood on but it was a short soft rubber one. I’d very much like to have the new hd da 55-300mm F4.5-6.3 ed palm wr re lens, but my body is a k-5, which doesn’t take advantage of the capabilities of this lens. The lens and a minimally qualifying body—k-3ii—together are beyond me at the moment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net “Man has been a murderer forever.” - Peter Matthiessen. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
