The bright spot should be shaped like the aperture. It's lens flare, caused by light reflecting off internal parts of the lens. Use as long a lens hood as you can without vignetting to minimize. Shooting from under an umbrella held to "flag" the sun also helps. Finally, the best lenses with excellent coatings offer more flare resistance than cheaper lenses. Most Pentax lenses have excellent coating.
Paul via phone > On Sep 30, 2016, at 2:54 PM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I’ve been following the cross country team of the high school in the > community in which I worked the last few years before retiring. I frequently > find myself having to shoot into the sun. When I do I get bright spot of > varying size shaped like the focus indicator in the viewfinder. > > Why does this happen? Can it be avoided? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, > men would die from a great loneliness of spirit." > > - Chief Seattle > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
