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The Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 has horrific flare characteristics

Started May 4, 2014 | Discussions thread
Tom Axford Forum Pro • Posts: 10,100
Re: Comparison image
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texinwien wrote:

Tom, here's the same image with exposure boosted to 1.5, contrast dialed down to -33, luminance NR set to 0 and purple hue set to 0. The purpose of this image is to help you see where the banding occurs, after which I think it will be easier for you to pick it out in the image I shared earlier (which, as I stated elsewhere, I had applied several tricks to in order to try to minimize the appearance of the pattern noise).

Tex,

Thank you for that version.

I can now see the bands in the image above (but not in the original), but only just (it takes a bit of effort)! I think perhaps my eyes are less sensitive than yours to colour variations in that part of the colour spectrum because I certainly wouldn't have noticed these bands unless I was specifically looking for them (although I am not colour blind in the usual sense of the term).

Maybe variations in eyesight account for at least some of the disagreement on the significance of banding?

Tom.

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