Flair for Flare? -- Canon Lenses in photography-on-the.net forums

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Oct 11, 2010 19:23 | #1

Which lens has a flair for flare? Seems every manufacturer is coating them to hell and back trying to remove flare but I kinda like it, when I want it.

Not sure I have anything thats realy good, looking for a fast prime sometime soon hopefully that will do it...

So what lenses do you have with good / bad flare?

Heres some of mine, first two from this morning.

Sigma 70-200f2.8 ex HSM, rather like this:

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Canon 50 f1.8 , again not too bad:

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One from a while ago from the sigma 10-20, its OK adds to the picture but a little uncontrolled and you get a green blob all the time which isnt nice.

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My favorite so far is the sigma 120-300f2.8, shame I had to hand it back!

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Oct 11, 2010 22:59 | #3

LensBaby. The platic lens optic is particularly good at it.

5D2, 17-40L, 50/1.8, 24-105L, 70-200L 4 IS, 580/270EX, Strato II/RF-602, Elinchroms

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Oct 11, 2010 23:02 | #4

xarqi wrote in post #11079121

There's such a thing as good flare? :shock:

I think flare works in some situations.

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Oct 11, 2010 23:08 | #5

I never had really good flare, but I had one shot of a Carnival-type thingy which showed VERY colorful flare. Its funny because the lens has anti-flare coatings.
I'm away from the main computer, but I can upload it later.

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