Helios 103 - was this caused by internal reflection?

[gudlagoba]

Here's a picture I took recently of a sunlit area. I was standing in the shade, I had the vented lens hood on. Instead of my Kiev 4, I was using a Bessa R2C so there is little chance of any light leak in the camera body. Is this just internal reflection due to light hitting the lens at just the "right" angle? It didn't happen in other shots in similar lighting conditions...

Thanks for your inputs.

 

[mravigna]

looks like flare of the lens

looks like flare of the lens

I think that its probably light which penetrated through one of the vents on your lens hood. I think that this might explain why it is so focused on one part of the lens, just like a beam of light which has penetrated though a hole.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I think it is internal reflections. I've blackened the aperture blades of my Helios-103 to help reduce this type of problem.


In case you are interested, this was a fairly easy "operation".

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51076

 

[projectbluebird]

I think it's just plain old flare. If you look at the direction of the shadows, and of the flare, they're parallel. It looks to me like the sun is either behind the tree in the corner, or just outside the frame, so the hood in this case would have provided little protection.

 

[Tair-11A]

I think it's just plain old flare. If you look at the direction of the shadows, and of the flare, they're parallel. It looks to me like the sun is either behind the tree in the corner, or just outside the frame, so the hood in this case would have provided little protection.

+1

hood - and no will be such problems in a future

 

[gudlagoba]

Thanks for the replies everyone! Brian, I will definitely check out the blackening of the blades operation. Could be worth trying out.

Though I tried to stand in the shadow of the tree, direct light probably fell on the shade and could even have come through a vent on the lens hood as mravigna pointed out.

 

[shadowfox]

+2

rubber hood works awesomely.

 

[gudlagoba]

I was using a vented hood but I also have a Russian solid plastic one. Only thing with the non-vented hoods is they obstruct the viewfinder a little. I was using the Russian lens hood until recently when I bought the vented one.