Thanks, Larry. I may just give it a try. I see there are lots of options. > On Sep 30, 2016, at 4:15 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not the only one who has had this idea, google "home made lens hood" > > https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&q=home%20made%20lens%20hood&oq=home%20made%20lens%20hood&aqs=chrome..69i57j0j69i64.5014j0j7 > > Larry Colen wrote: >> >> >> Eric Weir wrote: >>>> On Sep 30, 2016, at 3:10 PM, Paul Stenquist<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sep 30, 2016, at 3:14 PM, P.J. Alling<[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> That is a symptom of lens flair, and it's caused by reflections >>>> within the lens that design and coatings haven't been able to >>>> completely eliminate. The fact that it's six sided means that your >>>> lens has a six bladed aperture. To not have this type of flair, don't >>>> shoot into bright light sources. Sorry not the advice you were >>>> looking for. The other thing you can do with this type of lens flair >>>> is make it part of your composition and just live with it. However on >>>> a good note you have found one of the limits of your lens. >>> >>> Thanks to both of you. The lens is the smc da 4-5.6 50-200 ed wr—I >>> think you recommended to me, Paul. I had a hood on but it was a short >>> soft rubber one. I’d very much like to have the new hd da 55-300mm >>> F4.5-6.3 ed palm wr re lens, but my body is a k-5, which doesn’t take >>> advantage of the capabilities of this lens. The lens and a minimally >>> qualifying body—k-3ii—together are beyond me at the moment. >> >> >> If your bank account is more important to you than being stylish, you >> could extend your lens hood. One possibility would be to take some >> construction paper and tape it to the existing lens hood, following the >> angle of it. >> It might be worth also checking the angle of view at the widest point. >> Another thing you could do is take a yogurt tub, put your lens at its >> widest, look through the viewfinder with the open part of the tub facing >> the lens. Move the tub until the edges of it disappear from view, that >> is how far from the front of your lens it can be. >> >> Now cut a hole in the base of the tub so that you can mount it to either >> your lens hood, or your lens. You may want to spray paint the inside >> flat black too. >> >> > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > 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.
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