Can you take picture against backlight?

[jvuokko]

Hi,

Following sample image is taken with Symmar-S 5.6/150mm. It's single coated I believe.
The sun was high at right side, I used orange glass filter (multicoated) and compendium. I also shaded the camera and lens with my body.

Still the result is... Fogged..
There's no clear lens reflections, so I presume that the sun itself was not problem. Could the bright reflections on ice give a problem?
Or compendium hood's inside?

In general, how much do you avoid backlight situations?

[Per Madsen]

This type of "against the light" pictures are one of the areas where
multicoating makes a differance.

[Bruce Watson]

Could be that a multicoated lens would have helped. OTOH, the fogged effect could be due to local humidity and, quite literally, fog above the water.

Try a similarly lighted scene that doesn't involve close proximity to water and see if you get a similar "fogging" effect. If not, then it's the local fog over the water causing your problem.

[Archphoto]

In that case: the film sees more than the eye......

Peter

[Gem Singer]

You have moisture condensation either on our lens, your filter, or both.

[MIke Sherck]

I'm going with Gem; that looks like condensation to me, not flare.

Mike

[Frank Petronio]

It could be a lot of things, from a weakened translucent bellows to flare to moisture. You just have shoot under different conditions to figure out the answer.

[Jim Noel]

It makes little difference if a lens is single or multi-coated if you use a cheap filter in front of it.
On this photo I agree it is fogging or condensation on the filter or the lens.

[IanG]

As others have said it doesn't appear to be flare. I thought all the Symmar-S's were Multi-coated. Maybe the very first weren't, like the very first Sironars.

My experience with two Symmar-S's and two Sironar's is that they are remarkably flare resistant even when shooting with the sun in the image circle.

Ian

[jvuokko]

Thanks, I have to take some test shots with polaroid. Perhaps it was moisture or something that I wasn't aware of.

My Symmar-S serial number is 12 566 373. According to Schneider-Kreuznach it's made between 4/1974 - 1976.