Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- --On Monday, March 24, 2003 10:13 AM +0000 "Beddoe, Neil" <nbeddoe@lehman.com> wrote: >>>> John, > >>>> Could you post an example of the veiling flare you're referring to? > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> Rolfe > > Have a look at this. > http://www.leica-gallery.net/beddoe/image-40304.html > > The picture is a crop of a horizontally framed negative and the right hand > side of the neg doesn't exhibit the flare. I first thought it was the > filter I had on the lens but I've since had flare without the filter. The > lens shade was retracted (careless I know) which means that the whole of > the front of the lens was in the sun and I would have expected the flare > to cover the whole frame if the filter was at fault. If you look > through the lens at about 15-20 degrees to the sun, the patch of light on > the paint at the back of the lens is very bright. > > This is a latest generation Summicron. Neil, With all due respect, pointing a lens without a shade attached into the sun and then calling it "flare-prone" isn't exactly a fair test. I grant you that the shade on the current version 50/2 is something of a joke, since it doesn't offer as much protection as the older shades and doesn't even lock in place. I use the screw-in shade made for the current 50/2.8 Elmar which isn't an ideal solution but it is better than the built-in shade. Rolfe - -- Rolfe Tessem rolfe@ldp.com Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html