Lens Artifacts Aren’t Just Accidents

Lens Artifacts Aren’t Just Accidents

Because this chapter is all about reality as glimpsed by the
camera lens, several types of lens artifacts, visual phenomena
that occur only through a lens, have already appeared
in this chapter, including lens distortion and lens blur
(or boke).
You won’t be surprised to hear that this isn’t all: potentially
in your palette are more phenomena of the type that professional
cinematographers tended to avoid until the 1970s
(when they started to be considered cool). These include
lens fl ares, vignettes, and chromatic aberration. None of
these occur with the naked eye, but remember, your target
is the look of the real world as seen through the camera.