Causes of reflections

Annoyed about reflections in your images? As I am moving more and more content to my blog, I’ve put together a short article describing some work I did back in 2008 to get a better understanding about this issue. Basically I looked into 6 causes of reflections:

1. Impact of a filter
2. How clean is my lens
3. Impact of lens types
4. Impact of selected aperture
5. Position of the light source
6. Exposure control

I also included a comparison of 10 lenses with a similar light setup. Just to show the different reflections per lens type.

The tested lenses are:

1. AFS 14-24mm/2.8G
2. AFS 17-35mm/2.8
3. AFS 17-55mm/2.8G (DX)
4. AF 20-35mm/2.8
5. AFS 24-70mm/2.8G
6. AFS 28-70mm/2.8
7. AFS 18-200mm/3.5-5.6G VR I (DX)
8. AFS 70-200mm/2.8G Type I
9. AiS 58mm/1.2 Noct
10. Zeiss 100mm/2 Macro Planar

Hope you find the article useful.

~Andy