Is this flare on my 70-200?

I was under the impression that this lens (70-200 2.8IS) was pretty resistent to flare. However, I have gotten what looks like some form of flare, even though its not the more common one I usually see.

This one was with the Hoya Pro Digital CP, I don't remember if I had the hood on.

(bottom left)

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Something like that used to be 'fogged film' caused by accidentally opening the camera back before winding the film back into the cassette! If that was shot with the Hoya Digital, it makes me wonder what it would look like without the blackened filter edges!
(Your second image didn't make it!)

Wilt wrote in post #2168670
Something like that used to be 'fogged film' caused by accidentally opening the camera back before winding the film back into the cassette! If that was shot with the Hoya Digital, it makes me wonder what it would look like without the blackened filter edges!
(Your second image didn't make it!)

Hopefully they are both loading correctly now.
The picture of the man netting for bait was with the CP. #1
The picture of the Egret was without the CP. #2

Which were you referring to?
Thanks for the response.

Still cannot see the second picture! My original comments were about what I was seeing in image #1. What a minute, I right clicked the icon for the second picture, the menu showed an entry to show the image, and I clicked it and it appeared! Weird.

Flare in both pictures, no polarizer for the second one, so cannot lay blame on a filter. Flare in the lens is the only remaining suspect!

Remote linking from my pbase account is on the fritz. Relinked from photobucket now and then seem to be loading correctly.

It doesn't look like flare to me, but rather out of focus foreground objects intruding into the field of view.

Mark

I agree with mark, it just OOF foreground to me.

Mark_Cohran wrote in post #2168917
It doesn't look like flare to me, but rather out of focus foreground objects intruding into the field of view.

Mark

I just cannot imagine something translucent and out of focus being in the frame in shot #2, although that is certainly what it looks like!

Ohmygosh, Heatseeker99, poltergeists captured in pictures...Sell the photos to the ghost freaks and the National Enquirer and the Sun!

Mark_Cohran wrote in post #2168917
It doesn't look like flare to me, but rather out of focus foreground objects intruding into the field of view.

Mark

I second that diagnosis, certainly for the second picture and probably for the first. The second looks like it's taken through a wire fence or something similar (plus nearby leaves).

There is no way the first one is OOF. It was taken at f/5.6 and from a distance. How can the water on the left be OOF and the rest not?
Now granted the second was shot at f/2.8 and the vegetation in the foreground is OOF, BUT run your eyes over the brown tree branch and you can see haze in one area that is in the same focal plane.

Madweasel wrote in post #2168933
I second that diagnosis, certainly for the second picture and probably for the first. The second looks like it's taken through a wire fence or something similar (plus nearby leaves).

I third it x2 looks like there was a leaf or something like that really close

BradT0517 wrote in post #2168943
I third it x2 looks like there was a leaf or something like that really close

Yep, ok I am seeing that now. And I bet that is it too b/c there were leaves there. Thanks

#1 still remains a mystery. It was the last of a 4 shot burst and all the rest came out great.

both cases definitly look like a closr object out of focus, they also look nothing like flare, which is typically vewry linear, and accompanied by cicrular rings of various green to red colors.

Heatseeker99 wrote in post #2168940
There is no way the first one is OOF. It was taken at f/5.6 and from a distance. How can the water on the left be OOF and the rest not?
Now granted the second was shot at f/2.8 and the vegetation in the foreground is OOF, BUT run your eyes over the brown tree branch and you can see haze in one area that is in the same focal plane.

its not the water thats out of focus, its another object that snuck into the corner of the frame thats out of focus.

And look at the pinkish/reddish thing at the right side of shot #2...the reddish thing has much better edge definition than a simple out-of-focus object!