My problem Newton is I see only two sorts of aberration in your movie and if you want to lose the aberrations use your eye instead of the camera.

Do you understand it is a lens problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_aberration

If you want me to prove it use multiple light sources pointed down at the ground instead of just one and look at them with the camera

You will see this ...



The other way is break the image into 4 quadrants and take four images with the light centered in each quadrant and you will see the aberration angle and shape moves so it has nothing to do with earth movement because you wont change camera position.

The angulation of your ring is cause because the light in your image is not dead center to the lens.

When you do it with multiple sources you will see the angle changes relative to the position of the light source on the lens

You have a secondary less pronounced lens problem called flare.

Here is a more detailed background
http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dsc/knowhow/knowhow15.html


So the answer is if I do your test in my lab Newton because my lens is worth many thousands of dollars and is pretty close to perfect what I see is newtons rings .. no not named after you but a different Newton smile



So no I wont see your aberration in my lab.

Hope that makes sense to you.

Last edited by Orac; 08/16/13 04:40 PM.

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