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The camera's way of saying it also saw the sun, thanks for asking.
means The streaks, rings, and haze that appear in a photo when bright light bounces around inside a camera lens.
from Straightforward compound: 'lens,' from Latin lens (a lentil — because the double-convex shape of early optical glass resembled the little seed), plus 'flare,' a word for sudden bright or spreading light, likely connected to old words for 'flat' or 'spreading out.' The phenomenon itself only became a named, fussed-over thing once camera lenses were built from multiple glass elements stacked together — each internal surface bouncing a little stray light into the frame. Ironically, it went from optical flaw engineers tried to kill with coatings, to a deliberate visual effect filmmakers started faking on purpose to sell 'realism.'
- caused by
- light bouncing inside the lens, not the scene
- j.j. abrams
- weaponized it into a personality trait
- fix
- a lens hood, or just embrace the chaos
- anamorphic version
- those horizontal blue streaks are fake plastic strips