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Question - Lenses Coating and Fire or Heat reaction


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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!

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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.

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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.

 

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