AW: [Leica] wide-angle filter/hood question

[Michael Dienert <MDienert@foq.de>]

hi guy,

try the heliopan filters. they are very slim and at least with my 28
elmarit i can use the filter together with the hood and still the hood
locks as leica intended it to do.

michael

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:	Guy Bennett [SMTP:gbennett@club-internet.fr]
> Gesendet am:	Sonntag, 20. Juni 1999 11:04
> An:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Betreff:	[Leica] wide-angle filter/hood question
> 
> lugnuts,
> 
> put down that flame thrower, i'm not talking about uv filters...
> shooting
> yesterday in the pčre lachaise cemetary, i wanted to get a sweeping,
> cemetary-scape type shot over the tops of the tombs, reaching to the
> trees
> in the distance and including a stretch of sky. as i'm shooting b & w,
> and
> didn't want the bright blue sky to turn white, i put a dark yellow
> filter
> on my elmarit m 24 then went to put the lens hood back on - it
> wouldn't
> fit. well, it did slide back onto the lens, but wouldn't 'click' into
> place
> as the filter (b + w 023) was now blocking the little indent that
> permits
> the filter to 'lock' onto the lens. i decided to remove the filter and
> recompose my shot, including as little sky as possible, as i was
> afraid
> that i would otherwise get some vignetting. now perhaps this was a
> non-issue, as i wasn't shooting wide-open (i must've been at 5.6 or
> even
> 8), but i didn't want to take a chance. now that i've set the scene,
> here's
> my question: to what extent will the filter, either alone or, in this
> case,
> with a lens hood that won't fit all the way on (unlike the summicron m
> 35
> asph whose hood fits over the filter) cause vignetting on a wide-angle
> lens, and will this only happen when shooting wide-open? thanks for
> any
> answers/suggetions you might have.
> 
> guy