On Sat, 04 Mar 2000 15:38:15 +0100, Sigmund Kyrre Aas
<as### [at] studntnuno> wrote:

>This is not lens flare. You can get this effect with a filter, but the stars
>will then have equal number of arms.

Why do you say this is not lens flare? One doesn't always need to use
a filter to create star patterns from bright highlights. Sometimes the
iris inside the lens itself will create such a pattern. The shape of
the iris will control the number of "arms" in the star pattern.

Are you reserving the term "lens flare" only for those "colored disks"
of light that sometimes appear in photos? Just for the record, what
*do* you mean when *you* refer to lens flare?

Later,
Glen Berry

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