Took this shot this afternoon with my 5D2 + 35mm f/2 (ISO400, f/11, 1/640). The sun was high in front of me when I took the shot. There wasn't any flare visible in the VF when I composed the shot. But when I released the shutter, I saw a bright flash in the VF, and this bright streak appeared in the right top corner.
Daan B wrote:
Took this shot this afternoon with my 5D2 + 35mm f/2 (ISO400, f/11, 1/640). The sun was high in front of me when I took the shot. There wasn't any flare visible in the VF when I composed the shot. But when I released the shutter, I saw a bright flash in the VF, and this bright streak appeared in the right top corner.
alundeb wrote:
If you had used fill flash, the branches and foilage wouldn't have been so dark, and the grid pattern invisible.
Sorry, I haven't seen this before.
No flash would have been powerfull enough to fill in those branches and foliage. But that is besides the point. Even if I would have used fill flash, I still would have gotten the weird streak with the grid like pattern...
My guess is that the sun light bounced inside the cam and caused some kind of system overload resulting in this grid-like pattern.
Yep, this 5D2 is full of suprises...
BTW The grid-like pattern is only visible around the streak... the rest of the frame shows no grid-like pattern.
Maybe some kind of alien spaceship is about to land in Holland ? Just kidding. Definitely some kind of lens flare. Why it wasn't visible on the VF before the shot is beyond me. Are you using a lenshood? Has the inside portion of the lenshood some kind of black flockings or are there ridges on it? I am shooting from the hip here...
AGeoJO wrote:
Maybe some kind of alien spaceship is about to land in Holland ? Just kidding. Definitely some kind of lens flare. Why it wasn't visible on the VF before the shot is beyond me. Are you using a lenshood? Has the inside portion of the lenshood some kind of black flockings or are there ridges on it? I am shooting from the hip here...
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I had the lenshood on... the kind with the black flockings on the inside. No flare visible in the VF. When I released the shutter I was almost blinded (well... ) by the light flash that followed. Weird stuff.
AGeoJO wrote:
Why it wasn't visible on the VF before the shot is beyond me. Are you using a lenshood?
When the mirror is down, there are other reflections inside the box than with the mirror up.
U.C. wrote:
When the mirror is down, there are other reflections inside the box than with the mirror up.
+1 ...The internal reflections would undoubtedly be different and could (potentionally) cause flare that would not otherwise be seen with the mirror down. I wonder if you might be able to repeat this phenomenon by setting up a similar shot and switching back & forth from live-view to see if you create the same type of flare.
I would say it is lens flare that has caused an internal reflection and the sensor has bloomed. Those blotches are certainly machine-made. It's like the light has hit the sensor at the wrong angle and shown up the pixels. Odd.
? Just kidding. Definitely some kind of lens flare. Why it wasn't visible on the VF before the shot is beyond me. Are you using a lenshood? Has the inside portion of the lenshood some kind of black flockings or are there ridges on it? I am shooting from the hip here...