iPod touch Lens flare (green dots)

[davidhao]

As you can see with the attached picture, the new ipod touch 5gen suffers greens dots (3 here) fare when pointing the camera against direct light. The front facttime camera suffers the same, which is quite annoying because:

1. the iphone 4s doesn't have this problem
2. I have a green dot when facetiming everytime the light in my room is directly behind my head
3. Apple would probably say: you held it the wrong way

Do you guys' shiny new touches have this problem? Please let me know.

 

[GoodBoy]

Hmmmm interesting. Guess we'll have to wait other users of the newest touch confirm this to determine whether it's a widespread problem or maybe it affects only your unit.

 

[davidhao]

Hmmmm interesting. Guess we'll have to wait other users of the newest touch confirm this to determine whether it's a widespread problem or maybe it affects only your unit.

So i tried ipod touch 4gen, iphone 4s, both didn't have this problem. The new ipad has pretty much the same flare (ghosting) with different color, but not as bad.

I assume it's just a normal lens thing, just wondering what caused the difference between the devices...

 

[Alan Carter]

Those bulbs look like they might be florescent. Are they? I know some florescent bulbs can have a weird spectrum of frequencies compared to the sun or incandescent bulbs.

Does the lens flare show up in a different colour when photographing a normal incandescent bulb?

 

[Technarchy]

Those bulbs look like they might be florescent. Are they? I know some florescent bulbs can have a weird spectrum of frequencies compared to the sun or incandescent bulbs.

Does the lens flare show up in a different colour when photographing a normal incandescent bulb?

Or how about taking a normal photo...

 

[Aspasia]

I moved through my house taking photos of lights, both overhead and on the table. The only green spots I saw was when I was aiming straight up, directly into the spots of my track lights over the kitchen sink. They are very bright.

Out of curiosity, I aimed my Nikon camera at the same lights and saw two bright blue lines coming off the spots.

No big deal - just light bouncing off lens/camera components. Don't aim directly into lights or the sun.

 

[Mr. Retrofire]

As you can see with the attached picture, the new ipod touch 5gen suffers greens dots (3 here) fare when pointing the camera against direct light. The front facttime camera suffers the same...

The lens in the iPT5 has a higher quality, so the lens captures more light and “produces” lens flares.

I moved through my house taking photos of lights, both overhead and on the table. The only green spots I saw was when I was aiming straight up, directly into the spots of my track lights over the kitchen sink. They are very bright. Out of curiosity, I aimed my Nikon camera at the same lights and saw two bright blue lines coming off the spots.

This is the result of a polarizing filter.

No big deal - just light bouncing off lens/camera components. Don't aim directly into lights or the sun.

Of course not.

I want the light on the object, not directly in my camera lens.

 

[Luckybobby]

From SNL “I just get annoyed, when I point my iPhone directly towards the sun I get a slight purplish hue in my photos” You're not supposed to be taking picture of light bulbs, or the sun with a normal mobile camera.