Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/22

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Subject: [Leica] Filter for the M8 B+W 486
From: telyt at earthlink.net (telyt@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Dec 22 09:15:31 2006

Eduardo Albesi <lists@sololeicas.com> wrote:

> ... I think that Leica could (should) offer to re-coat  
> one of the internal elements with the IR barrier

Much easier said than done.  The existing coatings were designed to work
with the optical unit as a whole considering color transmission and flare
among other things and messing with any of the coatings could have unwanted
side effects.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com

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