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Purple fringing

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Purple fringing is usually attributed to chromatic aberration, although it is not clear that all purple fringing can be explained this way. Attributed causes of purple fringing include:
Chromatic aberration
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Purple fringing does occur, but not as often as you might expect - even when shooting very contrasty scenes.

Purple fringing that occurs because the image sensor doesn't capture the different colors (wave lengths) on the same focal plane through the lens. Can be caused by the lens optics.
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Purple Fringing
In digital photography terminology, purple fringing is an undesirable purple "rim" that surrounds areas of high contrast in a digital image.
It's very obvious when photographing people against a bright (but not deep blue) sky.

SS 2 pass + Purple fringing- This is like the 2 pass method above but it also removes a chunks of blue (purple) noise - much the same way as "Dark Night Shots" option in HotPixels applet.

Wide Angles, Purple Fringing and Light Falloff
Each individual photosite (pixel) in a digital sensor literally sits at the bottom of a well with a tiny micro-lens on top of it.

Also known as "purple fringing". It occurs from an optical point of view, and it depends on how you shoot and if your careful or not.

"Purple fringing" at wide angle, severe coma at telephoto. Geometric distortion on the R707 is a good bit higher than average at the wide-angle end, where I measured approximately 1.17 percent barrel distortion.

Chromatic aberration, also called "colour fringing" or "purple fringing", ...

This 'purple fringing' can sometimes be found on digital cameras as well. To what extent it becomes visible is dependent on the sort of image and the presence of dark or light edges in it.

Also known as purple fringing. It is fairly common in 2MP digital cameras and above, especially if they have long telephoto lenses. You can see it when a dark area is surrounded by a highlight.

Chromatic Aberration - Purple fringing that occurs along the edges of
of backlit subjects such as plants, people, and buildings.

Chromatic aberration and purple fringing are two distortion effects that can negatively affect photographs. There are a couple of things you can do to minimize these effects.
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The drawback is a loss in dynamic range of the image and the dreaded purple fringing (sometimes erroneously referred to as "Chromatic Aberrations") of overexposed portions of the image.

In reference to whether UV affects digital cameras' sensors or not, I've read that UV contributes to the purple fringing we see on high-contrast photos. I have a G3 and 812 filter. Perhaps some experiments are in order. :) ...

Cheap auxiliary lenses add horrible distortion and purple fringing to your shots.

If there's an excessive amount of CAs or purple fringing the MTF analysis will be affected to an unknown degree.

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