35mm SummicronM Asph flare

[agp]

I recently bought a new Leica M7 and 35mm lens, as above. Just got my first film back, and I'm delighted with them - the lens often does give a 3D feel. However, on three of the pictures (obviously contre-jour) there is a lot of flare (lenshood on permanently). One of the pictures has a bright orange polygon in the middle of the picture. Is this common in this lens? Cleaned it, carefully, for the first time yesterday, and surprised to note that it has a concave front element! Still delighted with the lens, and the camera, I'll just be more careful in future.

 

[jim0266]

What was going on in the photo? Any way you can post the photo somewhere and post the URL here?

 

[agp]

Thanks for the quick reply.Will post the picture over the next few days - a film scanner is arriving soon. >

 

[old_admin_CI]

... for posting test-photos, please use the testimages gallery of leicainfo.com:

http://www.leicainfo.com/testimages/index.php

you do not have to be registerd for uploading testimages there...

 

[old_admin_CI]

... and if the picture is not bigger tham 300x300 pixel and 50KB, you can also upload the test-photo in this thread itself...