maitias Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Greetings, I've recently started photographing and shooting video of Fire Performers. My equipment is a Sony A7s w/ Canon FD 50 1.4 or LOMO 4-28-1. I'm curious to know, can the heat from the fire can affect the coatings on the lenses? When shooting the talent, I'm often only a few feet away and I'm looking to possibly set up a shot where they breath fire directly at me... or a POV shot and I'm worried that it could affect my lenses. Here is an example photo I took of a couple performers. Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webrunner5 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Hell I would be more worried about your ass than the lens LoL!! Well I can tell you old lenses were pretty easy to to just about wipe off the coating in the 50's and 60's when cleaning them. So the real old ones I would be damn weary. It was pretty new tech back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimor Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 I've never shooted flames, but sometimes i take images from people firing guns. Particles from powder can travel very far away, even if you can't see then. So my advice: use longer focal lenses/shot further and put a cheap UV filter to protect your lens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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