17mm TS-E Flare reducing hood/ shade ideas allowing full shift FF?

Started Oct 8, 2012 | Questions
Quintin Lake
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17mm TS-E Flare reducing hood/ shade ideas allowing full shift FF?

Hi,

I find for architectural shots at dusk, with street lights, this lens although beautiful in quality, flares very badly when point lights are in the frame like street lamps. I've spent way too long in photoshop correcting these flares in post and am looking to improvise some kind of barn doors or bellows lens hood / shade that will allow full shift with a full frame sensor. Holding a board is not sufficient if the source of flare surrounds the camera

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Wimberly plamp or similar tools will hold & position your cards
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Re: 17mm TS-E Flare reducing hood/ shade ideas allowing full shift FF?

Quintin Lake wrote:

Hi,

I find for architectural shots at dusk, with street lights, this lens although beautiful in quality, flares very badly when point lights are in the frame like street lamps. I've spent way too long in photoshop correcting these flares in post and am looking to improvise some kind of barn doors or bellows lens hood / shade that will allow full shift with a full frame sensor. Holding a board is not sufficient if the source of flare surrounds the camera

I have the hood and have used it on my 17tse with a home made adaptor. You can see my write up here. You can't get full shift with the hood and not even with the less obtrusive Lee foundation kit. You can get some shift with the hood. Mine has a 105mm filter thread on the front, it would allow more shift if that were removed.

If you read my stuff be aware that I abandoned the 4 inch water pipe mount for one made from a spare lens cap.

http://ben-egbert.smugmug.com/Utility/17TSE-lens-hood-adaptor/15776282_tWQXNF#!i=1855432676&k=dRdJxvq

Another link

http://ben-egbert-photo.com/?page_id=195

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Re: Wimberly plamp or similar tools will hold & position your cards

Apewithacamera wrote:

http://www.tripodhead.com/images/dealer-plamp1.jpg

Thanks for the idea but I would need three for top and two sides so it would get very cumbersome and wouldn't work well in the wind

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Re: 17mm TS-E Flare reducing hood/ shade ideas allowing full shift FF?

Hi Ben,
Many thanks for sharing this, looks a good solution you have made.

Regards

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