Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/13

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Subject: [Leica] Lens color cast
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:59:54 -0500
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Herb,

I am puzzled by your information.  So far as I know, the Summitar was only 
made in screw mount, and only in 50mm.  And I think they were all produced 
in Germany.

Please take another look, and see if your lenses are actually marked as you 
showed in your post.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herbert Kanner" <kanner at acm.org>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:51 PM
Subject: [Leica] Lens color cast


> After shooting the same subject with my 35mm and 90mm lens, I first 
> discovered that the 90mm produces a color cast roughly equivalent to that 
> produced by incandescent light.
>
> The two lenses are Summitar M, and state on the front: "Leitz  Lens made 
> in Canada".
>
> It is not a problem. The color cast is easily correctable in Lightroom. I 
> am just curious as to why it is there. Is it something about the glass in 
> one of the lens elements, or has the cement on compound elements yellowed 
> through age? When I looked through the lens at a white area, I saw fully 
> uniform yellow.
> -- 
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
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