OM-D with Panasonic 7-14 - Purple flare in real world uses???

JamieTux wrote:

Erm - I've only had it for a few days but I have to disagree with everyone else - it happens a lot and it's pretty bad!
I don't think it ruins the shot on any of these but it's fairly obvious!

Purple spots leading to a green end from the bright section horizontally through the clouds

ON this one it's vertical coming down through the grass

And even in black and white you can see where they were due to the bright centre and rings around them, look at about 4 o'clock from the lightest part

But I think that the real question is - does it bother me and then the answer is no, I think this lens is awesome and am not considering returning it at all

They are all available full size on my flickr account if you want to see it more clearly.

EDIT

Oh and a snapshot where I first noticed it in the viewfinder and decided to take a picture to see if it was that bad.... (It was!)

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