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Thought this might be of interest to readers here. Film shots but still relevant I think.
This is a real life experience with the 19mm Elmarit-R (second version) that I think provides a nice example of how this lens handles flare wise and when pointed at the sun.
On the job early one morning I was shooting a pretty banal scene of city council workers setting up for the days work. I needed some way of making it look a little more interesting and decided to go wide with the 19 Elmarit on the R6
I was able to hide the sun behind the digger arm… but the light was pretty tricky to deal with. The general scene around the subject was flat light wise so its hard to tell if flare helped that along to some extent. It’s obvious effects are minimal given the circumstances and localised to centre of the shot but the lens handled the situation remarkably well. The next shot shows where the sun was actually at
The operator moved the arm of the digger and direct sunlight came bursting into the viewfinder.
This is the result as it came back on film straight scan no PP work
Don’t try this at home the experience was what I imagine a nuclear blast to like to the naked eye. It hurt! I can assure you that big fat front element of the 19 certainly sucks in light.
This is a real life experience with the 19mm Elmarit-R (second version) that I think provides a nice example of how this lens handles flare wise and when pointed at the sun.
On the job early one morning I was shooting a pretty banal scene of city council workers setting up for the days work. I needed some way of making it look a little more interesting and decided to go wide with the 19 Elmarit on the R6
I was able to hide the sun behind the digger arm… but the light was pretty tricky to deal with. The general scene around the subject was flat light wise so its hard to tell if flare helped that along to some extent. It’s obvious effects are minimal given the circumstances and localised to centre of the shot but the lens handled the situation remarkably well. The next shot shows where the sun was actually at
The operator moved the arm of the digger and direct sunlight came bursting into the viewfinder.
This is the result as it came back on film straight scan no PP work
Don’t try this at home the experience was what I imagine a nuclear blast to like to the naked eye. It hurt! I can assure you that big fat front element of the 19 certainly sucks in light.