Camera Flares, are they worth it?

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"Im considering putting a camera flare in to add to the realism"

I've never known any other special effect to look less real than a lense flare, or to have it's presence justified as a realism element quite as often.

They where cool when I first saw them running on a PowerVR card because it was something new and funky. Now they are more heavily used than the M25 London Orbital, and no more realistic.