What, no ideas?

[Don Roberts <droberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Last week I posted the following and got no responses.  I can't believe
that no one even has any speculation so I'll try again.  Any ideas
please.  I don't want to waste any more IR film if I can help it.

> I am very new to the IR area so I hope this isn't an old question.  I
> just processed a roll of HIE and a roll of Konica IR750 and discovered
> that most of the images are unusable because of what appears to be lens
> flare.  The puzzling thing to me is that both were shot with reflex
> cameras and I was not seeing flare through the viewfinders.  The HIE was
> shot in a Nikon 8008s with a 28-70 zoom and between-the-rails #25
> filter.  The Konica was shot in a Rollei TLR with a #25 filter in a
> bayonet ring over the taking lens.  I have enough problems trying to
> figure out the way to get sharper images without having flare too! 
> Anybody got any ideas about why this occurred?
> 
> To be more specific, I have a line of images of the iris opening coming
> across the neg.  I have used these cameras before in similar situations
> but without the filters and haven't run across this problem.  Does
> internal reflection become more of a problem with this setup?
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Don Roberts 
Bittersweet Productions
Iowa City, IA

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