Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And if you have managed to obtain a 50 AA Summicron and have had flare problems: http://leicarumors.com/2013/09/15/leicas-ceo-confirms-flare-issues-with-the-apo-summicron-50mm-f2-0-asph-lens.aspx/ It is hard to adequately control light inside a metal tube when combined with a very high contrast optical system. In this system internal reflections get very well transferred. Marty On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote: > > The 50mm Summicrons behave on the M9 largely consistent with their > behaviour on other cameras - they are great lenses with a few specific > shortcomings. The lens has plenty of resolution for the sensor. The main > problem with all the six element 50mm Summicron-Ms is flare from light just > outside the frame. It occurs irregularly and can be hard to predict, > because it occurs when there is a light source in a very narrow angular > range of the field of view. For a lot of people, it is never a problem > because they don't favour that sort of light, but I got caught by it all > the time, probably because of what sort of scene I like to shoot. There > are good examples (not mine) here: > http://photo.net/leica-rangefinders-forum/005wdK and here: > http://photo.net/leica-rangefinders-forum/0073Im where some ingenious > fellow built a baffle to prevent the internal reflection that probably > causes the flare. These lenses are amazingly flare resistant with light > sources _in_ the frame. On any digital Leica M flare is somewhat > exaggerated in comparison to film because the sensor is so much more > reflective than film emulsions. > > Marty > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:03 PM, <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote: > >> Lens cap fall off easily, otherwise a very nice lens. >> >> gene >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Vick Ko" <vick.ko at sympatico.ca> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 4:36:52 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central >> Subject: Re: [Leica] 50mm Summicron v5 on M9? >> >> I've never heard anything bad written about the "previous" 50mm f2 >> Summicron (not FLE). >> >> Vick >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >