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Purple Smearing w/K-5IIs

Started Jul 15, 2014 | Discussions thread
Mike Hiran
Mike Hiran Senior Member • Posts: 1,253
Re: Purple Smearing w/K-5IIs

On the first pic, I would expect purple fringing in that situation whether I was using the k10, k20, k5 or k5iis.

The second pic - is see contrast lost on the left side of the frame, but I'm not seeing the purple smearing. If you're talking about the goldish structure to the top of the frame, are you sure that's not blue and there's a white balance problem or some other color shift? It looks too perfect to be smearing or fringing... but then I'm only looking at the size you uploaded so I can't zoom too close.  This second pic it looks like light is coming in more to the photographer than the 3rd pic where you can see the highlight and reflection on the far wall - the light is clearly going away from the photographer so you wouldn't expect flaring like you would in the second pic.  And I think a hood would have resolved much of the problem.

I'm not seeing clear evidence of a defect...

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