[Theme] Lens Flare

[Bruno Schroder]

Heligon 50 on hamamelis, flare and ghosting

[Akira]

Bruno, these images with the Heligon are really pleasing!

Paco, love the passionate color of #149!

[Jakov Minić]

Bruno continues to sparkle!

[Chip Chipowski]

Rainy day in traffic

[Jakov Minić]

Chip, quite funky out of focus background

[Chip Chipowski]

Thanks Jakov, that is my thought as well.  This is 85mm 1.8G through a rainy windshield.

[Bruno Schroder]

Thanks Akira, the heligons are very unpredictable, at least to me, and therefore great fun.
Thanks Jakov but the sparkle should entirely attributed to the sun  

[pluton]

From the Zeiss ZF 50/2 at f/11...

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Keith, this Zeiss flared much worse than I had expected from  a multicoated lens. There shouldn't by chance be a filter on the front?

[Fons Baerken]

Df nikkor-s auto 35mm f/2.8 @ f/8

[pluton]

Keith, this Zeiss flared much worse than I had expected from  a multicoated lens. There shouldn't by chance be a filter on the front?

No filter...the front optic is recessed so far, there is no danger of my greasy fingers getting to it. Plus: I keep an old Tiffen lens hood screwed on, so I'll only rarely have to clean the front glass.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Even my single-coated 55 mm Micro-Nikkors many decades old could challenge that Zeiss Makro-Planar for shooting into strong lights. Weird.

[pluton]

The 8-element Zeiss ZF 50/2 and the 5-element Micro-Nikkor 55/3.5 seem to be at the opposite ends of the flare-prone spectrum within the world of 50/55 macros, I reckon.
An early multi-coated 55/3.5 was my first Nikkor lens in 1975.  I used to marvel at it's lack of flare, especially compared to my other lens, a Vivitar T-4 28mm/2.8.

[John Geerts]

Ghosting like fish....

With the Nikon 70-210 f/4 E.
+detail

[Jakov Minić]

John can sparkle too 
Drinking champagne. It fits perfectly well