Re: What, no ideas?

[boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Long)]

On Sat, 25 Jan 1997 16:22:51 GMT, Don Roberts wrote:

|Last week I posted the following and got no responses.  I can't believe

I for one confused this post with one evidently having to do with the
notorious "flare" of HIE, which actually isn't flare but an artifact
of the material's having no antihalation backing

|> 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

I've repeatedly taken pains about the sun position and using my left
hand to shadow the lens in back-lit pictures only to find that the end
product had flare I didn't see in the viewfinder of a Nikkormat FTn or
an FE-2, generally working with Ektachrome.  I don't know why this
should be.  If it's reflection off something behind the mirror, this
might apply to your Nikon but not to your Rollei.  And, for whatever
reason, I've encountered the problem exclusively in the Nevada desert,
as far as I can remember.

As you see, I have little if anything to contribute to this particular
question.  So normally I wouln't respond even if I'd recognized it as
a new question.  Perhaps others were unresponsive for the same reason.

P.S.:  Having read Walton's response, I suspect he's on the right
track in suggesting that the aperture difference (viewing vs. taking)
may account for the phenomenon in the Nikon.  In the Rollei, you're
not even looking through the same lens, of course.

Bob Long
(boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx)

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