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Quote Originally Posted by poider View Post
...I was in Aperture priority mode and when I bumped it up to f/22 I got a purple haze in the centre of my photos, f/8 and f/1.8 were all fine...
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Quote Originally Posted by Mark L View Post
... ISO 25600 might be your problem here...
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Quote Originally Posted by arthurking83 View Post
Possible, but pretty much unlikely.
That is, simply setting the camera to ISO25600 won't cause purple flaring in this manner .. otherwise the camera maker has a lot to answer for!
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That "possibly" might end up being "likely"!

Q: How many times do you have to look at a thread before it starts to gel?

f/22 in the case of the 50mm lens used here is a smallish aperture of ~2.27mm.

Our good friend "diffraction" might be at play here. The conditions were trying enough, and at f/22 with the ISO racing...!

Peter, maybe another experiment is called for. Try photographing a white sheet of paper to fill about 3/4 of the frame.
Do two runs: one in goodish sunlight, the other closer to your conditions for this lot, doing just what you did for these.