Getting pi$$ed off at vignetting

[stigmundfreud]

in the right place it can look really nice but the bloody 5d really suffers from it when using even the specific lens hoods or ultra thin filters

anyone recommend a way to prevent it from happening so much

[AlfaFoxtrot]

Only the usual, avoid wide angles and big apertures. Provided you take it a low enough ISO you can correct it in Lightroom or whatever with no ill effects.

[stigmundfreud]

the thing is the lenses and the hoods are supposedly designed to avoid it. if you are just one mm off you get it big time, its enough for me to think I might go to a 1d next as the 1.3x should avoid it whilst still keeping fairly close to the actual focal ranges

[AlfaFoxtrot]

I get it at the wide end of my 18-55, but it's easily correctable in software so I'm not toooo fussed about it, but it is an annoyance. I thought the hoods were designed to minimise it as well *sigh*.

[Simpo Two]

I'd guess it's the lens design. If a lens is going to vignette then a hood isn't going to stop it. A hood can only reduce flare or increase vignetting.

[stigmundfreud]

sorry its not so much the gradual fade out of light, do not mind that as tbh if I have noting in front of lens I get hardly any. But should I use something like a filter you get, sometimes, intrusion which is a perm vignette, nothing you can do in software to remove it. It just seems the 5d is very suseptible to filter position. If the filter holder is just a mm or two rotated it causes blockage which you cant really see in view finder.


eg (ignoring the issue with dust spots, now hopefully sorted!)

Edited by stigmundfreud on Tuesday 1st July 22:15

[Simpo Two]

Hmm, well if you really want to use filters how about the Cokin square system?




Blimey, that takes me back. 'Grad tobacco and a Star 4 please'... urgh. But cool at the time!

[stigmundfreud]

hehe nowt wrong with grads!

It is a cokin, its even with the wide angle holder too! It just seems that despite he lens being round (obviously light still hits sensor in different ways) that if you have the filter on one way its ok (landscape) but go portrait and you get this fairly constnat. Of course the other constant is me.... brb just dusting off my star burst....

[Simpo Two]

OK, how about dumping the holder and holding the square filter manually against the lens front? If that doesn't work I give up!

[stigmundfreud]

I had started to get to that point now anyway but the weight of the body + lens and balancing etc its a pain. I'd rather just complain on here if its all the same

[Famous Graham]

Step backwards?

The 1D still suffers with a 10-20 but only at 10, btw.

[350Wedge]

All Canon Full frame camera's suffer from this with certain lenses. The only way to get round it is to use apertures greater than F13 as a rule. If you use apertures like F2.8, F5.6 etc it will be worse using certain lenses....

Interestingly the really fast lenses, i.e the f2.8 jobbies dont suffer on full frame (think 70-200F2.8, 300F2.8etc)

I used a 1DS MKII last year and it did it a lot using the 100-400L and 17-40L. These lenses are prone to it on full frame camera's.

I still use a MK1D which has been perfectly fine, no vignetting with that !!