Flaregate : Apple has it’s say on the matter

Before I head into a long old rant about this, doesn’t sun refract like this when hitting any clear surface? For example a car window with the sun directly in front will cause a flare will it not?  I use my iPhone 4s exclusively for taking all the pictures at EssentialMac and guess what, if the sun is shining in the wrong / right place you get lense flare.  More often than not a few degrees of movement remove’s the flare.  Lense flare is cool anyways, look at the Transformers movies 😉

Flaring is part and parcel of almost any phone based camera, you can quite easily get a purple flare effect by taking a really badly shot photo.  Here’s one from a Galaxy Nexus.

Here’s some of the dumb ass comments you see in forums these days before people engage their brains.

The sun is shining wrong
Let me guess… it’s not a bug, it’s a feature…
the old, “you’re holding it wrong” excuse
I dont get this on my Samsung

There are a lot more but the idiocy of those forums made my blood boil and it really wasn’t worth reading the rest of those posts.

Now to these people I say, notice those tourists you see everywhere with massive camera, huge lenses and guess what’s almost always on the end of that.  A lense hood. Guess what that’s for.  You guessed it to stop the flaring issue.

Oh and BTW.  even Nasa get’s the Purple Flare “issue”