These are some of the shots taken at the NDP rehearsal, first time seeing this type of strange flares (green spots in my pictures) appearing in several shots. Anyone had this in their photos before? What is this caused by?
seem like your filter are not multi-coated type :sweat:.
They do not prevent... just have a lesser chance than having a non-coated filter, but the chances are still higher than without any filter at all.Thanks to all for the replies. Also realised the green spots are a mirror reflections from the lights in the pictures.
My set up is a Canon kit lens 18-55mm, using a Hoya "UV-Guard" Filter. The packaging never say anything about coating so don't think it comes with any. Will a filter with coating prevent the reflection from the glass elements?
Does the initials on filters like MRC(B+W) or HMC (Hoya) means they come with coating?
I agree with Sulhan. The green lights you see are actually bright points of light reflected from the camera's sensor surface to the len's rear element/glass.
If you look at your first picture, the row of green lights in the night sky are actually reflections of the row of bright lights between the building and the sea. It's green because the sensor recorded the colour of your lens multi-coating....green!
I am not sure what lens you are using but if you use the newer lenses in the market that's marketed as "digital" lenses they have extra multi-coating on the rear lens element to eliminate or reduce flare caused by the CCD/CMOS sensor.
Thanks to all for the replies. Also realised the green spots are a mirror reflections from the lights in the pictures.
My set up is a Canon kit lens 18-55mm, using a Hoya "UV-Guard" Filter. The packaging never say anything about coating so don't think it comes with any. Will a filter with coating prevent the reflection from the glass elements?
Does the initials on filters like MRC(B+W) or HMC (Hoya) means they come with coating?
Is it only the Hoya ones that have this problem or generally UV filters can only be used when there's sunlight?
So far from my experience of using Hoya, Tokina, B+W and Nikon filters..it seems this kind of flaring occurs frequently with the Hoya and Tokina ones..but on some situations the B+W and Nikon ones do show some flaring too.