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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cab1024" data-source="post: 1507204" data-attributes="member: 25012">No filter on the lens. The lens hood will have to handle all of the protection (which admirably shielded a dog shaking off this morning at the lagoon).Thanks for all the input. I think it was the "perfect storm" of events to create the ugly bokeh. Just happened to occur on my first day out, and therefore threw me for a loop.Since there seems to be no way to correct it, other than putting birds in locations they are not or greatly lessenigng the bank balance to open wider, I think I'll just have to live with it. And if it really bothers me in an otherwise perfect photo, I guess I'll have to blur it further in PP.Now, to just get an otherwise perfect photo...FWIW, I started shooting RAW this morning, with a plan for actually reviewing and culling after outings. I have no experience getting RAW files to look as I would expect a properly exposed jpeg to. But that is for another thread...on Aperture software...</blockquote>