Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] R Superwide Questions
From: Bud Cook <budcook@ibm.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 10:57:57 -0500

Joe,
I meant to say the w/a version.
Bud

Joe Berenbaum wrote:

> At 11:04 AM 02/09/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
> I suspect that a narrow version 82mm filter still wouldn't work withut
> intruding at the corners. The filter that works with this lens is the 82mm
> B+W wideangle filter (or filter holder with separate glasses). But it is
> big, you can't use the very narrow hood that comes with it because it still
> intrudes, and it looks a little conspicuous. But it works. I just used this
> combination to photograph some interesting angles of a crumbling and
> overgrown Victorian graveyard and I am currently hopping from one foot to
> the other (metaphorically speaking) while Argentum in London process my
> Ektachrome Infrared films with the "modified E6" process which gives much
> more subtlety than the normal E6 processing with this film. I think I may
> have some goodies. If B+W do a circular polariser version of the above
> filter, you may wish to be seated before looking at the price list.