Veiling and Flaring...

[Marc Roessler]

Hi..

 

I've toyed around with a few old lenses (Schneider Cine-Xenon 1.4/25 and 2/50, Cinegon 1.4/16 and 1.8/10). When hit by direct light, those veil to such a degree that it' almost ridiculous (which is probably ARRI suggested in their catalogues back then to always use the bellow-style mattebox?).

The veiling is so bad that it seems to render the flares invisible.

 

So I'd like to know:

Is there any trick to make those flare more and veil less?

Can you suggest any other lenses (preferrably S16 safe) that give nice flares but less veiling?

 

Greetings,

Marc

[Satsuki Murashige]

Is there any trick to make those flare more and veil less?

Since it's mostly the lens coatings that suppress veiling and flare, I don't think there's much you can do besides having the coatings on every element stripped and recoated with a modern formula. That would require total disassembly and would be really expensive. A mattebox with hard mattes would help keep stray light off the edges of the frame and reduce veiling glare until you had a point source in the frame. Those are really old lenses, and lens coating design has come a long way since. Anything more modern would give you less glare.