But What IS A Lens Flare?

Опубликовано 6 декабря 2023, 17:02

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A lot of people took pictures of the recent solar eclipse in North America and got photos where there’s a ghostly image of the eclipse floating in the sky nowhere near where the sun is!

REFERENCES:
Lens flare prediction based on measurements with real-time visualization doi.org/10.1007/s00371-018-155...
Physically-Based Real-Time Lens Flare Rendering doi.acm.org/10.1145/1964921.19...
From the Series of Articles on Lens Names: Tessar, by H. H. Nasse. Carl Zeiss Camera Lens Division March 2011

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