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Share your coolest lens flare

Started Oct 14, 2015 | Discussions
Stemu Contributing Member • Posts: 606
Share your coolest lens flare
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Lets have some fun and share some pictures which nice or surprising lens flare. It has to be micro 4/3 lens. Please add information what lens. Here's one, Panasonic 14-42 mk2.

Nice lens flare, huh !

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addlightness Veteran Member • Posts: 3,641
Re: Share your coolest lens flare

Out testing my newly acquired Bower 7.5mm f3.5 FE

Not the best worst flare - will try to do better...

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OP Stemu Contributing Member • Posts: 606
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Few more, from video frames. GX7 and 14-42 kit zoom.

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Rocky ID Olympian
Rocky ID Olympian Contributing Member • Posts: 765
Love 7-14mm 43 lens flare
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Here are some samples

All using 43 Olympus 7-14mm lens

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OP Stemu Contributing Member • Posts: 606
Re: Love 7-14mm 43 lens flare

Those are nice. All taken with F22. I have to try that too.

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Pepyn Senior Member • Posts: 1,001
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Pepyn Senior Member • Posts: 1,001
And another
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alcelc
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Lovely! Any trick to do it? (nt)
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Albert

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Rocky ID Olympian
Rocky ID Olympian Contributing Member • Posts: 765
Re: Love 7-14mm 43 lens flare
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Yes I use f22 to ge these effects. Can work on f16 or even f11 but I love f22. I know pixel peepers would hate the diffraction but... I love the overall image :-).

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Rocky ID Olympian
Rocky ID Olympian Contributing Member • Posts: 765
Re: Lovely! Any trick to do it? (nt)
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Number one, I'd have to say its the lens. Its character... Might work on other lenses but I dont know which lenses could produce the similar effect.

Okay.. and here is how.

I use f22 to get these starry effect. The long lines. The sun has to be sunny/harsh though. Won't work if it is cloudy.

To get the rainbow, place the light source in the middle.

Good luck mate

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third son
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OP Stemu Contributing Member • Posts: 606
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I found one in my collections with Oly45, F22

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OP Stemu Contributing Member • Posts: 606
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and one more with Panasonic 14-42 around F7. Exif lost for some reason.

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Ron Evers
Ron Evers Senior Member • Posts: 1,751
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1. Samyang 7.5 fisheye.

2. Samyang 12mm f2.

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The wood is clear between the knots.

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petersolymosi
petersolymosi Regular Member • Posts: 366
Some Budapest Flare
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Taken this past June on the Chain Bridge in Budapest. This was a very early morning shot (I took the first metro ride to downtown at 4:30am). The city was very quiet at that hour and the sunrise was incredible.

Pete

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HamsterKing Forum Member • Posts: 55
Re: Some Budapest Flare

nice!!!

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organos
organos Forum Member • Posts: 51
This is an organ I built. The photo was taken in June.
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Michael Gent New Member • Posts: 15
Re: Share your coolest lens flare

9mm f8 Body Cap Lens on E-M1

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Here's one

Pedagydusz Veteran Member • Posts: 6,027
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A night industrial landscape at a considerable distance - 100 ISO at 420 mm f5.6 with the EM-1 in Live-mode.

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