[Leica] FS: 21/2.8 Elmarit ASPH 6-bit

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

They all vignette, but if it's slight or it 
doesn't matter to you, then things are fine.

I lens tests now (last 5 years) I often read 
about people complaining about vignetting. With 
digital it really doesn't matter if there is a 
bit of vignetting, as it can easily be changed. A 
lot of vignetting matters a bit more because you 
might have to adjust every image, but it's still 
not a problem. Lack of resolution, flare, and 
even distortion and colour fringing are a lot 
bigger problems, but vignetting just isn't a big 
deal.


At 3:05 PM -0400 6/5/09, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>My 50mm Summicron does not vignette.
>Or it does but I never bothered to notice.
>Nor does my 50 mm 3.5 Elmar. I could easily but not that I'd ever notice
>Nor my 50mm 1.4 AI Nikkor.
>Nor my 50mm 1.8 AID Nikkor which I used this week.
>
>Nor my 50mm Color Skopar 2.8 lens on my Voigtl?nder Vito BL
>Nor my 50mm Noctilux
>Nor my 50mm Schneider Componon 2.8
>Nor my 50mm El Nikkor 2.8
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>
>Nor the "normal" lenses I use on my Rolleiflex, Hasselblad, Speed Graphics
>of medium and large formats, Calumet Cambo NX, and Olympus Pen Ft
>
>If they made them I would buy anti anti vignetting filters.
>As I prefer darkened edges. Something I almost always do in processing later
>in the darkroom or here at my laptop anyway.
>
>
>I was just curious why a 50mm 1.4 lens would need a 77 filter size.
>
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>Mark William Rabiner
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>>  From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
>>  Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>  Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 23:53:32 +1000
>>  To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>  Subject: Re: [Leica] FS: 21/2.8 Elmarit ASPH 6-bit
>>
>>  OK, someone has to say it ;-)
>>  my 1.4 50 doesn't vignette and it isn't fat, with 46mm filter size.
>>  Don't need no stinkin' DC motor or AF on your Summilux.
>>
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>>  2009/6/5 Thein Onn Ming <mingthein at gmail.com>
>>
>>>  Still vignettes, as does the Nikon 50/1.4 AFS which also has a ring 
>>> motor -
>>>  to be precise it's a coreless DC motor whose lens elements sit in the 
>>> hole
>>>  where the motor spindle normally goes, and the helicoid is wrapped 
>>> around
>>>  that whole bundle.
>>>
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